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
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJ ...
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Newcomb was from
Haworth, New Jersey. He graduated from the School of Journalism,
Rutgers College in 1932.
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
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS ''Indianapolis'':
* was a cargo ship commissioned 12 December 1918 and decommissioned 9 July 1919.
* was a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1932 and sunk in July 1945.
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, while ''Iwo Jima'' is an oral history of the veterans involved in the assault on Iwo Jima. He retired to
Palm Coast, Florida in 1984, and died on December 3, 2004.
Works
*Newcomb, Richard F. ''Abandon ship!''. Holt, NY 1958, republished by HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.
*Newcomb, Richard F. ''The
battle of Savo Island'' 1st Owl books ed. New York : H. Holt, 2002.
*Newcomb, Richard F. ''Iwo Jima'', foreword by
Harry Schmidt. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Republished 2002
*Newcomb, Richard F. ''A pictorial history of the
Vietnam War'' maps by Rafael Palacios. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987.
*Newcomb, Richard F. ''Savo: the incredible naval debacle off Guadalcanal.''
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New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.
*Newcomb, Richard F. ''U.S. destroyers of the world wars.'' Paducah, Ky. : Turner Pub. Co., 1994.
References
1913 births
2004 deaths
American military writers
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male journalists
American male non-fiction writers
American war correspondents of World War II
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