That's true Rick, they were. However I thought I read somewhere that
as the airplanes approached the Japanese coast, they depressurized

I don't know that for a fact about the B-29, but the similarly
designed B-36 (two crew compartments connected by a tunnel) was meant
to be depressurized when combat was imminent.

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