Yes, that’s right. :-)
These were the tactics used by the RAF in Operation Thunderclap (as the attack on Dresden was called). The fateful thing about is was, however the weather: Dresden is situated in the valley of the River Elbe, and the night of the 13th of February 1945 there was a forceful katabatic wind blowing downvalley. needless to say, it was also a very cold wind, i. e. rich in oxygen, and it fanned the flames to an incredible conflagration.
Still, it was less lethal than the Tokyo attack, but of course the Saxon metropolis has always been much smaller than the capital of Japan, in sheer numbers it had about one-tenth of Tokyo’s inhabitants.
Interestingly, the effects of the March 10th ‘45 raid on Tokyo were exacerbated by high winds as well, just as had been the case in Dresden.
At a certain point the conflagration produced its own winds.