Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Kurwisa mabhomba panguva yeHondo Yenyika II kwakatanga musi wa1 September 1939 apo Germany yakapinda muPoland uye "Luftwaffe" (German Air Force) yakatanga kubhomba maguta uye vagari vemo muPoland mune imwe
nhimbe yokurwisa nendege. Sezvo hondo yakaramba ichipararira, kubhomba kweAxis neAllies kwakawedzera zvikuru. Royal Air Force yakatanga kubhomba zvinangwa zvechiuto muGermany, zvakadai semadoko uye zvikepe, muna March 1940, uye yakatanga kunanga Berlin muna August 1940. Muna September 1940, Luftwaffe yakatanga kurwisa maguta eBritain muBlitz. Pashure pokutanga kweOperation Barbarossa muna June 1941, Luftwaffe yakarwisa maguta eSoviet nezvivako zvehurumende. Kubvira muna February 1942 zvichienda mberi, kurwisa mabhomba kweBritain paGermany kwakava kusinganyanyi kurambidza uye kwakaramba kuchinyanya kunangidzirwa kunzvimbo dzeindasitiri nenzvimbo dzevanhuwo zvavo. Apo United States yakatanga kubhomba nhume dzokubhururuka kuzorwa neGermany, yakasimbisa nhamburiko idzi uye kubhomba kunopokana kwakaitwa kuzorwa neHamburg (1943), Dresden (1945), nemamwe maguta eGermany.