Parachute Wedding Dress, 1947. 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 ...

There was no electricity on the ranch, so Hazel took the parachute material and sewed a dress together on a treadle sewing machine. Fifty years later, in 1997, Anna’s granddaughter, ...

Women improvising with parachute silk or nylon for their wedding dresses became popular. The Cades married in September 1947 when Ann was 22 and Baylus was 28. They had four children — Breezy ...

Wedding Dress Made Of Silk From Parachute That Saved WWII Pilot's Life On Display At Cradle Of Aviation Museum. October 22, 2020 / 8:07 PM EDT / CBS New York UNIONDALE, N.Y ...

“They knew how to make things work,” the 70-year-old daughter of a Navy aviation ordnanceman said of her parents, while explaining how her mother’s wedding dress was made from an old parachute.

From the Smithsonian's collection of remarkable artifacts, a wedding dress made from a B-29 pilot's life-saving parachute:\n\n\nIn August 1944, Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, and his crew were returning ...

Sgt. Eugene Deibler Jr., of the 501 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101 Airborne Division survived the June 6, 1944, jump onto the beaches of Normandy, France, he saved a piece of his silk reserve ...

The parachute is similar to the one worn by Air Corps pilot Lt. George Braet during a mission over Hitler's Europe. On February 4, 1944 — George's B-17 bomber came under attack by 20 Nazi fighters.

Aida had her wedding dress made from a parachute her husband used in World War II. “I wrote to him every day without fail. Every day he had a letter from me.