Kammala wannan jumla: Bamai na dabarun a lokacin yakin duniya na II ya fara ne a ranar 1 ga Satumba 1939 lokacin da Jamus ta mamaye Poland kuma "Luftwaffe" (Sojojin Sama na Jamus) sun fara kai hare-hare kan birane da fararen hula a Poland a cikin wani
Kamfen na harin bam daga sama. Yayin da yakin ya ci gaba da fadada, bombardment ta duka Axis da Allies ya karu sosai. Rundunar Sojan Sama ta fara kai hare-haren bama-bamai a Jamus, kamar tashar jiragen ruwa da tashar jiragen ruwa, a watan Maris na 1940, kuma ta fara kai hari kan Berlin a watan Agusta na 1940. A watan Satumbar 1940, Luftwaffe ya fara kai hari kan biranen Burtaniya a cikin Blitz. Bayan farkon Operation Barbarossa a watan Yunin 1941, Luftwaffe ya kai hari kan biranen Soviet da abubuwan more rayuwa. Daga watan Fabrairun 1942 zuwa gaba, kamfen na bama-bamai na Biritaniya a kan Jamus ya zama ba shi da iyaka kuma ya fi mayar da hankali ga wuraren masana'antu da wuraren farar hula. Lokacin da Amurka ta fara jigilar fashewar bama-bamai a kan Jamus, ta karfafa wadannan kokarin kuma an gudanar da tashin bama-bamai masu tayar da hankali a kan Hamburg (1943), Dresden (1945), da sauran biranen Jamus.