Helen Airy graduated from Yreka High School, Siskiyou County, California, and the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English literature. She was a columnist for the "San Francisco Examiner" for five years until the outbreak of World War II when she joined the American Red Cross in December, 1942, and was sent to England. She served as an aero club director on a B-26 bomber base at Rougham, in East Anglia, and later as a London-based reporter writing about the American Red Cross. She is also the author of "Doughnut Dollies, American Red Cross Girls During World War II," published by Sunstone Press.
