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.

VICTOR, Mont. — It was 1946, a year after World War II ended. In a school assembly at Victor High School, three girls were voted by their classmates to become cheerleaders for the Victor Pirates. But ...

The parachute was never deployed but pilot George Braet always believed it stopped a bullet from injuring him.

It was a beautiful summer day, and a crowd had gathered in front of Aida Bonsonto’s home in the Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago. Dressed in a gown made of silk and nylon, the bride-to-be walked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAS CRUCES – When Hazel Ewing made her daughter a wedding dress in the 1940s, she likely wasn’t thinking it would one day end up ...

Mountaineers discovered WWII-era parachute material on a glacier in Austria believed to be from a US-led spy mission called Operation Greenup, experts said. Screengrab from Ötztaler Museen’s Facebook ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A York County woman has donated her wedding dress to the National World War II museum in New Orleans. "It was a beautiful gown, much more than I would ever have anticipated," Deany ...