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 wedding dress usually begins with fabric and fittings, but this one had a very different origin rooted in World War II. A pilot survived a damaged aircraft using a silk parachute, and years later ...

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 ...

There have been many iconic wedding dresses over the years that tell the story of a beautiful love story between a couple, hold some historic relevance or just impeccable craftsmanship. It could be ...

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 ...

TAMPA — Milagros was only passing through Tampa on her way back to Cuba. Joe, a man she had known for around a year, primarily through letters, had another idea. Return to Cuba to collect your ...

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 World War II era dress, stitched from the fabric of a pilot's parachute, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lindsay Tuchman reports on the parachute wedding dress on display. HP Chromebook Plus x360 review: A 2-in-1 Chromebook that will ...