[Smokin' Joe]

I freely admit I do not know enough about the history of parachute manufacture (nor harnesses, for that matter), but I seem to recall that military chutes were made of silk, at least into WWII, and it may have been a surplus model. Not enough info.

Maybe the Japanese dropped some Gai-jin spies in...

[dalereed]

It seems to me that the chutes that we used to buy at the surplus store in the late 40s and used for tarps were made of nylon.

Didn’t pay that much attention since their material content wasn’t of any importance.