41-29535 never made it to England.

Assigned to the Brown crew with Bombardier Roy Wickerham to fly the southern route to the UK

The route they were assigned would take them to Homestead Air Field, Florida, then to Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, then south to Natal, Brazil, then across the Atlantic Ocean to Dakar, French West Africa, then to Marrakech, French West Morocco, and finally on to the British Isles and the brand new base at Lavenham in East Anglia. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned and Roy’s military career nearly ended up prematurely. On March 24, while in route to Homestead, the weather became cloudy, rainy and extremely windy from Georgia to Florida and they were directed to land at Warner Robbins Air Base, Macon, GA. The pilot found Macon, but the ceiling was only about 300 feet, so they turned on the Radio Compass for an instrument landing but discovered it wasn’t working. The pilot spotted a small Airport and decided that since the weather was closing in and the aircraft had no homing equipment, they would land there (Herbert Smart Field). The approach was good, and the aircraft touched down at the head of the runway for normal landing. However, when the pilot tried to engage the brakes, he discovered they weren’t working. It was a short runway designed for smaller aircraft, so they ran off the end of the runway and crashed into the far bank of a lower road at the end of the runway. The B-24 broke into three pieces and was totally destroyed. Amazingly, the Consolidated Mess didn’t catch on fire which would have been fatal for the crew. However, the ship had clearly lived up to its name. All crew members walked away from the crash, and only Dick Mason, the ball turret gunner, was seriously injured. They were taken to Warner-Robbins Airfield to be checked out, and Mason was on crutches for the next 10 days. Roy was one of the last to leave the crash site, because it was his responsibility to turn the Norden Bomb Sight over to security personnel.