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If you are talking about the Nazi bombing campaign, The Night Blitz was the secondary stage of the battle of Britain. When the Nazi's used daytime bombing, British pilots(arguably the best in the world at the time) using their advanced hurricane and spitfire fighters(superior to the Nazi equivalent) inflicted such heavy losses on the Nazi bombers that the raids became incredibly costly. When the Nazi's switched to nightime bombing, the Hurricane and Spitfire fighters were rendered innefective and allowed the Nazi's to bomb the UK unimpeded until the Brits developed night fighters.

The overall strategic objective of both bombing campaigns was to cripple English production capability by destroying factories, and thereby open England up to invasion across the Channel.

Eventually the Nazi's stopped focusing on bombing factories and turned to indiscriminate bombing of civilian housing that was intended to break the will of the British people. That effort failed fairly spectacularly.

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