"I think Allied pilots flew around Germany in 1945 just looking for targets."
Yeah, that is when they would shoot at anything that moved . . . cows, farmers, etc.
That was a sad degradation of the American policy in effect for most of the war in Europe: to bomb only targets of military significance.
Basically, after all the military targets were bombed, and the Luftwaffe was decimated and offering no resistance, they "had" to find something to shoot at . . . so the fighter/bombers straffed people and cows.
Too bad, because it endangered our pilots and cost ordnance -- to no military utility; and of questionable ethics.
The Allied air planners were convinced they could win the war with just air power. They were never going to bomb the Germans into submission just like the Luftwaffe wasn't going to bomb the British into submission in 1940.