Banaba (Ocean Island) yakaramba iri dzimbahwe renyika iyi kusvika pakadzingwa maBritish muna 1942 munguva yeHondo yePacific apo Ocean Island neGilbert Islands dzakatorwa nemaJapan
. Mauto eUnited States akasvika paFunafuti musi wa2 October 1942 uye paNanumea neNukufetau muna August 1943 uye akavaka nhandare yendege pachitsuwa chimwe nechimwe nedzimwe nzvimbo. Zvitsuwa zveTuvalu zvakabata senzvimbo yekugadzirira panguva yekugadzirira Hondo yeTarawa uye Hondo yeMakin yakatanga musi wa20 Mbudzi 1943. Colonel Vivian Fox-Strangways, aive Resident Commissioner weGilbert neEllice Islands Colony muna 1941, uyo aive kuFunafuti.