Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wedding dress made from a WWII parachute with quite a story behind it is now on display at a museum on Long Island. The rare ...

A WWII parachute repurposed into a wedding dress by Evelyn Braet is on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, embodying love and resourcefulness during post-war scarcity.

YORK — Deany Keith had her hair curled and teased on a recent morning for her media appearances, an “it” girl at 93 years old. Tucked into a neat little apartment in Country Meadows retirement ...

This wedding dress was made from a nylon parachute that saved Maj. Claude Hensinger during World War II. In August 1944, Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, and his crew were returning from a bombing raid over ...

Historians can be daydreamers at times when it comes to things that might have taken place in the past. So indulge with me for a moment as I think about Valentine's Day in 1942 and what might have ...

Curator Joan Ecktenkamp Klein, left, talks with W. Frazier Bell, right, about a wedding dress made from a silk parachute once worn by his mother and former U.Va. nurse Hilda Franklin during World War ...

At Morning Star Retirement on Saturday, several residents brought out their wedding dresses, and told the story behind them. Every dress came with a unique story, but one made out of a parachute from ...

The Dunbar Historical Society says the dress was worn by Carmean Maddas when she wed James Wallace on June 7, 1947. Maddas' brother was in the Army Air Corps stations in the Italian Alps during the ...