 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Sezvo hondo yakafambira mberi, Hondo yeBritain yakachinja kubva pakurwira kutonga mhepo kusvika pakurwisa kweLondon, Coventry nemamwe maguta eBritain. Mukutsiva nokuda kwaikoku, vaBritain vakavaka RAF Bomber Command, iyo yakanga ichikwanisa kuendesa zviuru zvakawanda zvamatani emabhomba pachinangwa chimwe, pasinei zvapo nokurasikirwa kukuru kwokubhomba kwokutanga muna 1940. Mauto ebhomba akabva atungamirirwa naArthur Travers Harris mukuedza kuputsa ushingi hweGermany uye kuwana kuzvipira kwakanga kwafanotaurwa naDouhet makore 15 akanga apfuura. United States yakabatana nehondo uye USAAF yakasimbisa zvikuru mushandirapamwe, ichiunza Eighth Air Force muEuropean Theatre. Maguta mazhinji, makuru nemaduku, akaparadzwa chaizvo nebhomba reAllied. Cologne, Berlin, Hamburguye Dresden ndezvimwe zvezvinonyadzisa zvikurusa, zviviri zvokupedzisira zvinokura madutu omwoto. Bhuku raW. G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction, rinotsinhira pamusoro pokuputika mabhomba pamaguta eGermany uye rinobvunza chikonzero nei kusingaiti rutivi rukuru mukuziva kworudzi rweGermany, uye nei pasina vanyori veGermany vakanyora pamusoro pezviitiko. Pasinei nokushayikwa kwezvinyorwa, rudzi rwemafirimu, firimu remarara, rakapfurwa pakati pematongo emaguta uye rinoratidzira upenyu hwakaoma hweavo vaifanira kuvakazve maguta akaparadzwa, rakagadzirwa mumakore pashure pokuguma kweHondo Yenyika II. 