The bombing of San Marino were a series of British aerial bombing attacks on the microstate of San Marino during World War II. Eight air raids were carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1944 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing during World War II. While the aerial attacks managed to destroy the railway line that connected San Marino to nearby Rimini, the nation itself proclaimed to be neutral during WWII and the intelligence that the Germans were using the railway line to transport weapons turned out to be wrong later on. Because of this, the bombing is considered to be controversial to this day, especially in San Marino itself.