Everyone has seen pictures of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landing at Normandy, but did you know that those paratroopers were using some of the first nylon parachutes ever created?

With silk being unavailable due to the war, scientists in the early 1940s were desperate to identify substitute materials that could be used for the construction of parachutes. Two of these men were Harold Hindman and George Burr.