Richard Newcomb Explained

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.

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 ^[8]
• 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. [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.

Notes and References

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