You could clap the brakes on as hard as you liked
My father took me along for a brake bed detail in a Halifax at Aldergrove in 1948. He and I were the only two in the aircraft, me being in the nose. Three runs went fine but on the fourth heading along the northerly runway there was a total brake failure.
There was no room to stop so my father opened up No 4 which caused the aircraft to partially groundloop to the left into 202's parking spectacles. There were no other aircraft around but we mowed down a few fire extinguishers before we stopped.
I don't know if my father was ballocked for not having me in the landing/crash position but it didn't effect him. They still sent him off to CFS.