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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