A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the country and became one of the strangest prisoner-of-war incidents on American soil. Lt. Helmut von der Aue, a 26-year-old pilot captured in Italy, had been working on Joseph Henry Rogers' plantation near Beulah in Bolivar County when he and Rogers' wife Edith fell in love and decided to flee together.

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