Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Yulin 1941, sojojin Australia da New Zealand sun kwashe ma'aikatan Hukumar Phosphate ta Burtaniya daga Banaba (wanda aka sani da Tsibirin Ocean). A watan Fabrairun 1942, jirgin ruwan Faransa mai suna "Le Triomphant" ya kwashe sauran Turawa da Sinawa. Sojojin Japan sun mamaye tsibirin
daga 26 ga Agusta 1942 har zuwa ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na II a 1945.