Ka cika wannan jumlar: Jafananci sun kama tsibirin a farkon shekara ta 1942. Sojojin Amurka ne suka kwace kudancin filin Morotai a watan Satumbar 1944 a lokacin yakin basasa.
Yaƙin Morotai, kuma an yi amfani da shi azaman wurin shirya don mamayewar Allied na Philippines a farkon 1945, da Borneo a watan Mayu da Yuni na wannan shekarar. An gano sojan Japan Teruo Nakamura a cikin dajin Morotai a 1974, a matsayin daya daga cikin Sojojin Japan na Yaƙin Duniya na II waɗanda suka ci gaba da jimrewa bayan sojojin Japan sun mika wuya.