Shuttle bombing is a tactic where bombers fly from their home base to bomb a first target and continue to a different location where they are refuelled and rearmed.
The aircraft may then bomb a second target on the return leg to their home base.
[1][2][3] Some examples of operations which have used this tactic are: While shuttle bombing offered several advantages, allowing distant targets to be hit and complicating the Axis defence arrangements, it posed a number of practical difficulties, not least the awkward relations between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
Allied shuttle bombing operations were concluded in September 1944 after a three-month period and not repeated.