The Battle of Berlin

“A fascinating look into the aircrews used and the effect on those who had to live through this constant bombing” by the RAF during World War II ( UK Historian ). Berlin was bombed by four Allied air forces between 1940 and 1945. British bombers alone dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, while the Americans a further 23,000 tons. By 1944, some 1.2 million people, 790,000 of them women and children, about a quarter of Berlin’s population, had been evacuated to rural areas. An effort was made to evacuate