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Henry James Johnson OBE, TD (1924–2008) was a Colonel in the British Army. He commanded the 21 SAS (TA), after which he led Britain's clandestine war against Egyptian forces in Yemen during the mid-1960s. After that he set up Britain's first post-war private military company.
James Houston Johnson Jr. [1] (16 December 1937 – 18 August 2023) was a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. He had over 33 years of active military service, culminating as Commanding General of the First United States Army , responsible for 325,000 soldiers, from 1991 to 1993.
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
James Kenneth Johnson (May 30, 1916 – August 22, 1997) was a colonel in the United States Air Force. In the Korean War he was a double ace , credited with shooting down ten enemy aircraft. He also had one "kill" in World War II, when he was a lieutenant colonel .
Johnson's Division BG Bushrod Johnson. Ransom's (North Carolina) Brigade Col Leroy M. McAfee. 24th North Carolina: Col William J. Clarke; 25th North Carolina: Maj William S. Grady (mw) 35th North Carolina: Col James T. Johnson; 49th North Carolina: Ltc John A. Flemming (k), Ltc James T. Davis; 56th North Carolina: Cpt Lawson Harrill
Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101.Johnson became a household name thanks to the ...
27th Mississippi: Col James A. Campbell (c), Ltc Andrew J. Jones; 29th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley; 30th Mississippi: Maj James M. Johnson; 34th Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton, Cpt Jerome H. Bowen; Wright's Brigade [4] BG Marcus J. Wright Col John H. Anderson 8th Tennessee: Col John H. Anderson, Ltc Chris C. McKinney; 16th Tennessee ...
The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s, depicting the particular barriers for Black women in science during this time, thereby providing a lesser-known history of NASA. [3] The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson , Dorothy Vaughan , and Mary Jackson , three mathematicians [ 4 ] who worked as computers (then a ...