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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
Available for in-person and virtual speaking events.
Short Bio
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.” She 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.
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Suggested speaking topics:
Highlights of Finding Bomb Boogie
Eighth Air Force during World War II
Prisoner of War experiences during World War II
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after World War II
Tips to research World War II veterans’ histories
Suggested interview questions:
How has your work influenced others?
What challenges have you overcome as a writer?
Where do you get your inspiration?
What advice would you give someone trying to learn more about their World War II Veteran?
What are you working on next?
Full Bio
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, and 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 finally had the time and the inspiration 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 is a member of the 91st Bomb Group Memorial Association, the Bomb Group her father belonged to, and serves on their 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.
