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Joe B Tanks 1911 - 1995

Joe B Tanks of Pittsville, Pittsylvania County, VA was born on July 17, 1911, and died at age 84 years old on November 1, 1995.

Joe B Tanks
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Pittsville, Pittsylvania County, VA 24139
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July 17, 1911
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November 1, 1995
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Joe B Tanks Joe Tanks (1911 - 1995)
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  • 07/17
    1911

    Birthday

    July 17, 1911
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Negro, Citizen

  • Nationality & Locations

    Pittsylvania County, Virginia United States

  • Early Life & Education

    Grammar School

  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 33045526 Enlisted: February 8, 1941 in Roanoke Virginia Military branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, Usa Rank: Private, Selectees (enlisted Men) Terms of enlistment: Enlistment For Assignment To Another Corps Area

  • Professional Career

    Farm Hands, General Farms
  • 11/1
    1995

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    November 1, 1995
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In 1911, in the year that Joe B Tanks was born, the first use of aircraft as an offensive weapon occurred in the Turkish-Italian War. First used for aerial reconnaissance alone, planes were then used in aerial combat to shoot down recon planes. In World War I, planes and zeppelins evolved for use in bombing.
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In 1943, he was 32 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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Tanks, Julia (Jun 2, 1890 - Mar 1986) Tanks, Paul (Died Nov 1967) Tanks, Georgia (Nov 6, 1904 - Sep 1984) Tanks, Bertha (Nov 4, 1898 - Apr 15, 1992) Tanks, Barbara (Jan 31, 1943 - Mar 2, 2008) Tanks, Dalbert (May 18, 1936 - Jun 20, 1999) Tanks, Ann (Jul 24, 1906 - Nov 16, 1999) Tanks, Clyde (Aug 11, 1934 - Mar 22, 2004) Tanks, Lawrence (Oct 27, 1915 - Jun 1976) Tanks, Helen (Jul 27, 1894 - Sep 1975)
Tanks, Mary (Apr 23, 1917 - Jun 24, 1998) Tanks, Frank (Jul 4, 1894 - Apr 1969) Tanks, Annie (Oct 19, 1920 - Mar 21, 1995) Tanks, Sam (Sep 6, 1909 - Oct 1987) Tanks, Louise (Jan 5, 1933 - Jan 29, 2003) Tanks, Lee Ellen (Jun 28, 1933 - Mar 13, 2011) Tanks, Elsie (Jul 9, 1908 - Dec 1978) Tanks, Rickey (Mar 9, 1955 - Jan 1, 2005) Tanks, Kenneth (Dec 22, 1939 - Apr 30, 2009) Tanks, Carl (Jul 18, 1949 - Apr 4, 2001)
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