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.
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.
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