Husband-and-wife World War II correspondents will be inducted into The Daily Texan Hall of Fame at the University of Texas
VERY Reuters correspondent Bill Stringer of Teague, was killed as the U.S. Army advanced on Paris in August 1944. His wife, Ann, born in Eastland and raised in Tyler, was a groundbreaking journalist in her own right.
Bill Stringer worked on The Daily Texan, the oldest college newspaper in the South, in the late 1930s and 1940 as he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and master's degree government.
He met his wife Ann on the paper, and they were married in March 1941.
Both Stringers went to work for United Press news service and were posted to Buenos Aires and New York. Bill Stringer left United Press for a frontline war correspondent position with in- ternational news service Reuters.
He covered the D-Day landings and was the first Allied corre - spondent in Cherbourg after it was freed from the Nazis.
As the Allies pressed toward Paris in August 1944, Stringer's jeep encountered a German tank, and he was killed by a tank shell. He was 27 years old. After the war, President Truman awarded Stringer the Medal of Freedom.
Stringer’s widow, Ann, per- suaded United Press to allow her to cover the war, and she scooped the world when the first Ameri -
can troops met up with Soviet forces, closing the vice on the
Nazis. She reported the atrocities found in the Nazi death camps.
After the war, she remained with the Berlin bureau of United Press and covered the war crimes trials in Nuremberg.
Stringer's father, William J. Stringer Sr., was Teague post - master and publisher of the Teague Chronicle. He died in 1972 and his wife, Vasa, died in 1975.
The Friends of the Daily Texan, the group that conducts the Hall of Fame ceremonies, is looking for Stringer relatives who might be interested in at - tending the event.
For more information, see friendsofthedailytexan.org or email [email protected].
