MAUREEN BUICK
Maureen Buick is a retired registered nurse who became a World War II history buff while searching for her father’s World War II story. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and divides her time between Lake Tahoe and Sonoma County.
I write to keep the memory of my father’s World War II history alive.
“Lest we forget.”
Maureen Buick is the author of Finding Bomb Boogie: A Daughter’s Search to Rediscover Her Father—the World War II Bomber Boy, Prisoner of War & American Veteran.
Maureen is a retired registered nurse specializing in adult critical care, neonatal critical care, and administrative nursing. She became a World War II history buff after she retired and had the opportunity to research her father’s war story.
Tracing her father’s footsteps during World War II and the years leading up to the war, Maureen’s research took her to Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Panama, and Austria. The highlight of her travels was visiting Bassingbourn, the Air Force Base in East Anglia, England, where her father flew bombing missions to Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. Another highlight was visiting her father’s Prisoner of War camp, Stalag 17B, in Krems, Austria.
Maureen completed a Prisoner of War course administered by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans to help her better understand what the prisoners of war suffered and endured. She also completed educational courses related to World War II aviation.
Maureen is a member of the 91st Bomb Group Memorial Association, the bomb group her father belonged to, and serves on the board as editor of the quarterly newsletter, The Ragged Irregular. She is also a member of the 8th Air Force Historical Society and the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society.
Maureen lives with her husband in San Francisco and spends most of her time traveling between Lake Tahoe and Sonoma County. She is an avid skier and enjoys traveling, hiking, and gardening when she is not busy writing. She and her husband have two grown children and two grandsons, whom Maureen buys model airplanes for—mostly B-17s—every chance she gets. This is her first book. She is currently working on a second book related to World War II, Prisoners of War.
