Richard Fairchild Newcomb (June 6, 1913 – December 3, 2004) was a wartime naval correspondent during World War II and received a Purple Heart. He was a news editor of the Associated Press and the author of a number of books on the battles in the Pacific during the Second World War, including Abandon Ship!, Savo, in particular Iwo Jima, an account of the Battle of Iwo Jima.[1][2][3]

Newcomb was from Haworth, New Jersey. He graduated from the School of Journalism, Rutgers College in 1932.[4] His two books Abandon Ship! (1958) and Iwo Jima (1965) were bestsellers. Abandon Ship! is the first book written on the sinking of USS Indianapolis,[5][6] while Iwo Jima is an oral history of the veterans involved in the assault on Iwo Jima.[7] He retired to Palm Coast, Florida in 1984, and died on December 3, 2004.[4]

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  1. ^ James C. Bradford, ed. (2009). A Companion to American Military History. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-444-31511-0.
  2. ^ "Flying Magazine". 1 November 1965 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "BEST SELLERS: January 28, 2001". The New York Times. 28 January 2001.
  4. ^ a b "Richard Newcomb Obituary (2004)". The Record/Herald News. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  5. ^ Lynn Vincent (2018). Indianapolis. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4711-4700-5.
  6. ^ Morris, Rob (24 March 2014). Untold Valor: The Second World War in the Pacific. Fonthill Media.
  7. ^ Mark D. Roehrs; William A. Renzi (2004). World War II in the Pacific. Routledge. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-7656-0835-2.
  8. ^ "The New York times book review". 70. New York Times Company. 1965: 159. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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