 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Dzidziso yemhepo yeGerman yakanga yaona kudiwa kushoma kwekugadzirwa kwehusiku hwehusiku hwekuzvidzivirira pamhepo uye Luftwaffe yakanangana nekushandisa zvine mutsindo kwesimba remhepo. Kukundikana kweLuftwaffe muHondo yeBritain muna 1940 kwakagumisa tariro dzokuguma kwehondo nokukurumidza. Tatarisana nokutonga kweGermany mukondinendi yacho, chombo bedzi icho vaBritain vaigona kushandisa kushandisa dzvinyiriro yechiuto pakarepo paGermany chaiva mashandiro okubhomba usiku kweRAF Bomber Command. Bomber Command yakanga yanzi ishande usiku kubvira muna December 1939 uye Hondo yeHeligoland Bightapo kurasikirwa kunonetesa muchiedza chezuva kwakamanikidza RAF kurega aya mabasa. Uku kudenha, kunyange zvazvo kwakanga kusina kururama uye kusingabatsiri zvachose, kwakanga kuchinyadzisa Mukuru Mukuru weLuftwaffe uye munhu wechipiri ane simba zvikurusa muGermany, Reichsmarschall Mukuru Mukuru Weumambo Hermann Göring, uyo akambodada kuti Unogona kundidana kuti Meyer kana mabhomba omuvengi akambobhururuka pamusoro peGermany. Iye akaraira kusikwa kwesimba idzva rakagadzwa musi wa 26 Chikumi 1940, kurwisa kurwisa kwehusiku. 