Editing Greatest Generation (section)

==Date and age range definitions==
[[Pew Research Center]] defines this cohort as being born from 1901 to 1927.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people-press.org/2016/12/15/americans-name-the-10-most-significant-historic-events-of-their-lifetimes/|title=Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes|date=December 15, 2016|publisher=People Press|access-date=January 2, 2017|archive-date=January 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102180330/http://www.people-press.org/2016/12/15/americans-name-the-10-most-significant-historic-events-of-their-lifetimes/|url-status=live}}</ref> Strauss and Howe use the birth years 1901–1924.<ref name = "Howe">{{cite magazine|last1=Howe|first1=Neil|title=The G.I. Generation and the "Triumph of the Squares"|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2014/07/30/the-g-i-generation-and-the-triumph-of-the-squares-part-2-of-7/#14f6fc301a1d|access-date=November 26, 2016|magazine=Forbes|date=July 30, 2014|archive-date=November 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118150129/https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2014/07/30/the-g-i-generation-and-the-triumph-of-the-squares-part-2-of-7/#14f6fc301a1d|url-status=live}}</ref> The first half of this generation, born between 1901 and 1912, is sometimes referred to as the [[Interbellum Generation]]. The majority of veterans who served in World War II were born during the second half of this generation, from 1913 to 1924. While the oldest members of the Interbellum Generation came of age at the close of the 1910s in 1919, the majority reached maturity in the 1920s and the minority had grown up in the initial years of the [[Great Depression]] from 1929 to 1932. The "WWII Generation Proper" came of age in either the second half of the 1930s or the early years of the 1940s.