The multiple raids on Berlin and Dresden in February and March of 1945 were part of an immense acceleration of the air war. By the end of 1944, almost four-fifths of German towns with over 100,000 inhabitants had already been destroyed; and that was before Allied bombing operations peaked. In the first four months of 1945, the Anglo-American air forces dropped over twice the tonnage of bombs on Germany that the RAF had dropped in all of 1943.
