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Japanese missions against Funafuti and Funafuti Airfield
April 22, 1943–April 23, 1943

A total of eight Japanese planes were lost attacking Funafuti. The raids killed one local man and a dozen Americans but did little damage.

April 22, 1943
(7th AF) During the night of April 21-22, Funafuti Airfield is bombed twice by Japanese planes. Two B-24's are destroyed and five others damaged.

April 23, 1943
(IJN) Type 96 / G3M2 Nells from 755 Kōkūtai (755 Air Group) bomb Funafuti Airfield. During the raid, 680 islanders took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church. U.S. Army Corporal B. F. Ladd, persuaded them to get out of there and into dugouts. Ten minutes later, a large bomb destroyed the building. Only one islander, Esau Sepetaina was killed in the air raid.

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