Thomas S. Treanor was born on November 8, 1908, in Los Angeles County, California. He served as an American war correspondent during World War II. Treanor was widely known for his accounts of battles in the North African, Sicilian, Italian, and French campaigns.

Treanor, a 35-year-old Los Angeles Times and National Broadcasting reporter, who covered the war from Chungking to London suffered severe scalp cuts, a crushed foot, and internal injuries and died while undergoing an operation. He died on August 19, 1944, in a front line hospital of injuries suffered 10 hours earlier when a Sherman tank ran over his jeep at a crossroads in France.

The group Treanor was riding with was en route to cover the Seine river front and was passing a tank column when the accident occurred. As the jeep swung out to pass the column at a crossroads, the tank turned left and ran over it.

Treanor was given 10 pints of blood, but, although he had pulled himself out of hundreds of tight battlefield squeaks, he could not make it this time. He is now buried in the Brittany American Cemetery, Montjoie Saint Martin, France.

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