The Horror Of Le Mans -- At the moment Pierre Levegh's Mercedes somersaulted into the crowd at Le Mans, June 11, to cause the worst disaster in the history of motor racing, an American serviceman had his camera out. Jimmy Prickett, of Electra, Texas now stationed at Angouleme, France, made these picture of the horror at Le Mans, when some 80 persons were killed and another 90 injured.Top: Firemen Fight flames of blazing Mercedes (left) while spectators some with flames licking round their heads, fly in panic from the car.Below; The rush from the blazing Mercedes (left), and the living sorting out the dead and dying who lie in heaps in side the stand. A woman kneels beside a dead boy a man holds another boy in his arms. June 14, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

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The Horror Of Le Mans -- At the moment Pierre Levegh's Mercedes somersaulted into the crowd at Le Mans, June 11, to cause the worst disaster in the history of motor racing, an American serviceman had his camera out. Jimmy Prickett, of Electra, Texas now stationed at Angouleme, France, made these picture of the horror at Le Mans, when some 80 persons were killed and another 90 injured.Top: Firemen Fight flames of blazing Mercedes (left) while spectators some with flames licking round their heads, fly in panic from the car.Below; The rush from the blazing Mercedes (left), and the living sorting out the dead and dying who lie in heaps in side the stand. A woman kneels beside a dead boy a man holds another boy in his arms. June 14, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

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