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. ISBN0-06-018471-X