As a staff writer, she reported on the onset of World War II in Europe, including the German invasion of Poland and the fall of France.

By 1944, Tomara had returned to Europe to report on the Normandy campaign, the liberation of Paris, and the Seventh Army's advance through Alsace.

[5] In 1920, she fled with her mother to France during the Russian Revolution where she got employed as a political reporter and editor for Le Matin until in 1928 when she was recruited by the New York Herald Tribune.

[6] During the 1930s, Tomara covered major events including the rise of Adolf Hitler and the battle of France following her return to Europe.

[9] She was accredited as a United States war correspondent later in the year and was assigned to the Far East to cover political stories in the China-Burma-India Theater.