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The Greatest Generation, also known as the G.I. Generation and the World War II Generation, is the demographic cohort following the Lost Generation and preceding the Silent Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927.
May 30, 2024 · Greatest Generation, generation of Americans born between approximately 1901 and 1924, who came of age during the Great Depression and the 1940s, many of whom fought in World War II. The Greatest Generation is estimated to have had about 63 million people.
- Fred Frommer
Dec 1, 1998 · In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America.
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Mar 10, 2024 · The Greatest Generation describes the cohort of Americans born between the decades of the 1900s and the 1920s, living through the Great Depression and WWII.
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Jun 13, 2020 · Learn about the birth years, traits, and legacy of the generation that survived the Great Depression and World War II. Find out how to search for your family members who fought in the war or read their memories on FamilySearch.
The Greatest Generation is a 1998 book by journalist Tom Brokaw that profiles those who grew up in the United States during the deprivation of the Great Depression and then went on to fight in World War II as well as those whose productivity within the home front during World War II made a decisive material contribution to the war effort.
May 1, 2001 · You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs.
