Greatest Generation

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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.^[1] They were shaped by the Great Depression and were the primary generation composing the enlisted forces in World War II.