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]

Works

  • Newcomb, Richard F. Abandon ship!. Holt, NY 1958, republished by HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0-06-018471-X
  • Newcomb, Richard F. The battle of Savo Island 1st Owl books ed. New York : H. Holt, 2002. ISBN 0-8050-7072-9
  • Newcomb, Richard F. Iwo Jima, foreword by Harry Schmidt. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Republished 2002 ISBN 0-8050-7071-0[8]
  • Newcomb, Richard F. A pictorial history of the Vietnam War maps by Rafael Palacios. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987. ISBN 0-385-18540-5
  • Newcomb, Richard F. Savo: the incredible naval debacle off Guadalcanal. [1st ed.] New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.
  • Newcomb, Richard F. U.S. destroyers of the world wars. Paducah, Ky. : Turner Pub. Co., 1994. ISBN 1-56311-134-9

References

  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. 1 2 "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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