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TOM TREANOR, WAR CORRESPONDENT, IS KILLED IN JEEP ON ROAD TO PARISNEW YORK. Aug. 21.—MV-The National Broadcasting Company announced today that one of its correspondents. Tom Treanor, has been killed in Franco. A colleague of Trcannr's, John Mae Vane, rcjxn'lcd from t hu American sector that Treaunr was killed when a jeep in which he was riditm was run uver,by an American tank,Advices lo Supreme lleadqu:irlt;er in London said it was reported one other American correspondent had : been killed and three wounded.Trcanors death was announced from Fra net* by John Mac Vane. Hunt her N.B.C. reporter Hide, who said:“Tom was where he wanted to be,at the very tip of the units of the* American Third Army p u s h i n £ toward Paris. There were Germans behind him and all around him.“It was his great ambition to be the first radio correspondent to reach Pari* and send the word back to the people back home.“Tom's loss will be great, lie was greatly loved by his fellow correspondents—ever ready and enthusiastic—ever wanting to help. He was such a swell guy “Trennor recently published a book of his experiences as a war correspondent, called “One Damned Thihc After And her.*N.B.C. later was informed that Trcnnor was killed near Drcu* at 4:30 a.m. Saturday,
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Mon, Aug 21, 1944
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