Richard Newcomb
American historian
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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
