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 ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – There’s a story behind each one of the 11,000-plus objects in the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s collection. One of the more interesting stories belongs to a wedding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...