USAAF: US Strategic Bombing Operations Over the Third Reich, 1944

Best estimates today have it that the war in Europe most likely would have continued for about 24 months after February 1944 had it not been for the cumulative effects of the Allied strategic aerial offensive against the Germans. That means the war was most likely shortened somewhere between 13 and 15 months by the effects of that campaign. We say "most likely" and "somewhere between" because we can't be more certain.…