Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te kaha nui o te RAF i te wa o te pakanga ko te pakanga rererangi rererangi ki a Tiamana. Mai i te 31 o Mei 1942 ka taea e te RAF Bomber Command te whakaeke i nga whakaeke nui i te po, i etahi wa ka uru atu ki nga rererangi 1,000. Mai i te waenganui o te tau 1942 ka nui haere te maha o enei waka rererangi he kaipatu pahū hiko e wha-a-roto penei i te Handley-Page Halifax me te Avro Lancaster. Ko nga whakaekenga whakahirahira ko te Operation Millennium ki Cologne, te whakaekenga tuatahi o te 1000-bomb; Operation Chastise, nga 'Dambusters' i whakaekehia i nga whaainga i te Ruhr Valley;
Operation Gomorrah, te whakangaromanga o Hamburg; me te 'Hua o Berlin'. Ko te maama, tere e rua-engine de Havilland Mosquito kaiwhaiwhai-peke i whakamahia mo nga whakaekenga taikaha penei i te Operation Carthage, he whakaekenga i te tari matua o te Gestapo i Copenhagen, me te kaiwhaiwhai po.