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Oral History Interview with W. A. Henderson, September 20, 2003
Interview with W. A. (Bill) Henderson, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his time as a bombardier and navigator on a B-24 in the China-Burma-India Theater. His crew hit the bridge over River Kwai (Mae Klong) while making bombing runs along the Burma Railway and also flew runs to supply gasoline to various bases in China, India and Burma. He relates anecdotes about the food and living quarters on the bases and the time he saved his co-pilot's life. He helped his co-pilot land the plane after a bullet tore through the plane's nose wheel and injured the man's leg.
Date:
September 20, 2003
Creator:
Johnson, Kep & Henderson, W. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye"
Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan reciting the popular poem "um ba Khudaye" in the Srinagar dialect.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "Dast-e-Khuda"
Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan, a retired school teacher, reciting the poem "Dast-e-Khuda," in the Srinagar dialect.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative on family history by Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan
Recording of Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan reciting a personal narrative of his family history in the Srinagar dialect. He recalls how his ancestry came to Srinagar. He tells of his fathers, and his brothers and their children, and his own children, and what they work as.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye"
Recording of Raja Tasleem Khan, a magistrate, reciting the poem "um ba khudaye," in the Srinagar dialect.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library