Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin Birtaniya a 1940, RAF ta kare sammai a Birtaniya a kan Jamus da yawa. A cikin abin da watakila ya kasance mafi tsawo da kuma rikitarwa a cikin tarihi, yakin Birtaniya ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga jinkirta da kuma jinkirta jinkirin Operation Sea Lion, shirin Hitler na mamaye Birtaniya. A cikin House of Commons a ranar 20 ga watan Agusta, wanda ci gaba da kokarin RAF ya sa, Firayim Minista Winston Churchill ya yi jawabi ga al'ummar, inda ya ce "Babu wani lokaci a fagen rikice-rikicen mutane da yawa suka yi yawa da yawa ga 'yan kaɗan".Babban kokarin RAF a lokacin yakin shine kamfen din fashewar bam din da aka yi a kan Jamus ta Bomber Command. Duk da yake RAF bombardment na Jamus ya fara kusan nan da nan a kan fashewar yaki da farko shi ne m; shi ne kawai daga baya, musamman a karkashin jagorancin Air Chief Marshal Harris, cewa wadannan hare-haren ya zama ƙara hallakaswa, daga farkon 1943 a gaba, kamar yadda sabon fasaha da kuma mafi yawan m jirgin sama ya zama available. RAF ta yi amfani da fashewar dare a kan biranen Jamus kamar Hamburg
da kuma Dresden. Bombing na dare na dare ya zama babban ɓangaren yakin basasa na RAF, musamman saboda Harris, amma kuma ya ci gaba da fasaha na fashewa na musamman don ayyukan musamman, irin su "Dambusters" da No. 617 Squadron, ko kuma Amiens kurkuku da aka sani da Operation Jericho.