A life's (fatal) lesson on how NOT to maintain magnetos

The issue wasn't just the added weight but the location of the added weight. Crews would load up their extra ammo n the radio room, well aft of the aircraft's center of gravity located near the forward bulkhead of the bomb bay. Pilots who dealt with this (and survived) reported when the aircraft left the ground it wallowed tail down and they struggled to get it in level flight.