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Tom Treanor
THOMAS STANLEY COGHILL “TOM” TREANOR (November 8, 1908 - August 18, 1944) was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times during most of World War II, providing firsthand accounts of the battle against th...view moreTHOMAS STANLEY COGHILL “TOM” TREANOR (November 8, 1908 - August 18, 1944) was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times during most of World War II, providing firsthand accounts of the battle against the Axis as his travels took him to such places as China, South America and Europe. He was the author of several magazine articles and a book, One Damn Thing After Another (1944), detailing his experiences.
Born in Los Angeles, California, his father John Treanor a prominent businessman in San Diego circles, he spent much of his childhood on a ranch owned by his family near Warner Hot Springs. He graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and then attended University of California at Los Angeles, where he was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity. In 1944, he was elected to Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism society. A journalism scholarship was later established in his name at UCLA.
Treanor began his journalism career on the Los Angeles Evening Express and Herald-Express in 1930, and then reported for the Oakland Post-Enquirer in 1932 and the Wisconsin News in Milwaukee. He returned to California to join the Los Angeles Examiner and finally the Los Angeles Times in 1934, as a reporter, society editor, and associate editor on the Times Sunday Magazine. He started his daily column for the Times in 1940.
On August 18, 1944, whilst covering the war, Treanor was killed when a tank made a turn and struck his jeep on a dusty road outside a French village that had just been liberated from the Nazis. He was buried in the Brittany American Cemetery in Basse-Normandie, near Le Mans. He was 35 years old.view less
Books by Tom Treanor
One Damn Thing After Another: The Adventures of an Innocent Man Trapped Between Public Relations and the Axis