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The G.I. Generation is the cohort of Americans born 1900-1926. They fought World War II, and then created the vanguard of the Baby Boom. The generation is also known as the Greatest Generation (after Tom Brokaw's book), the World War II Generation, the Veteran Generation, the Depression Generation, the War Generation, and the Traditional Generation or Traditionalists. The term "GI Generation" has been in common use since the 1970s.^[1] Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 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The Gilded Generation is the name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for the generation of Americans born from 1822 to 1842. ... The Progressive Generation is a name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1843 to 1859. ... The Third Great Awakening was a period in American history from 1886 to 1908. ... The Missionary Generation is the designation given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to that generation in the United States of America born from 1860 to 1882. ... Lost Generation is traditionally attributed to John Wilks Booth[1] and was then popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises and his memoir A Moveable Feast. ... Interbellum Generation is a term sometimes used to denote persons born in the United States during the first decade of the 20th Century, often expressed specifically as the years 1901 through 1910. ... 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The derivation of "G.I." originally comes from the letters stamped on US Army trash cans made from galvanized iron. [1] By 1943, the term became indelibly linked to the millions in military service. The abbreviation was later explained as "government issue" or "general issue." Many of these new soldiers were also draftees, with the press calling them "Government Inductees" or GIs for short, especially focused on the millions of men entering the U.S. Army. The Army became the epitome of melting pot America. Soldiers were celebrated in the media. The term "GI Joe" was immortalized by reporter Ernie Pyle who drew from frontline stories to write his 1943 book, Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe. After that the idealized "G.I. Joe" became everything that was good about the country, celebrated as a popular comic book hero and toy action figurine. GI or G.I. is a term describing a US soldier or an item of their equipment. ... Ernie Pyle on board the U.S.S. Cabot. ... 1960s Action Soldier Adventure Team circa 1973 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a line of military-themed action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. ...

Boys born mostly in 1923-1926, were just old enough to be drafted, trained, and (at age 18 or 19) shipped to Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima in time to join in the heaviest fighting. George H. W. Bush was among the youngest fighter pilots of World War II; he was only 20 when he and his light bomber was shot down over Chichi Jima. Combatants United States Germany Commanders Omar Bradley Norman Cota Clarence R. Huebner U.S. 1st Infantry Division U.S. 29th Infantry Division Dietrich Kraiss German 352nd Infantry Division Strength 43,250 Unknown Casualties 3,336 1,200 The build-up of Omaha Beach: reinforcements of men and equipment moving inland. ... For other uses, see Iwo Jima (disambiguation). ... Chichi-jima (父島, lit. ...

After the war, G.I.s built suburban tract housing. In the early 1950s the typical 35-year-old's income was $3,000 per year, mortgage rates were 4 percent, and a new Levittown home sold for $7,000 ($350 down and $30 per month). With the GI Bill young war veterans were offered cheap loans to pursue business opportunities and education that before the War would have been out of their reach. They are the generation in which most Americans of south and east European origin entered the great middle class, and include the first large contingent of the black middle class. They include the first blacks to make the successful assaults upon Jim Crow practices in the American South and the first blacks to achieve upper ranks in the American Armed Services. This does not cite any references or sources. ... Levittown, a suburb of New York City, is a hamlet and unincorporated political subdivision of New York State located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. ... The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and Border States of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965 and affected African Americans and many other races. ...

The G.I. generation learned early on in life how to be a good team player putting their trust in government, authority and community. A generation of "doers' and "believers," many achieved a higher standard of living and education than their parents. G.I.'s are survivors of the great depression - easily made happy with a good job, mild future, and a little house for family.

Members of the G.I. generation are high achievers, fearless but not reckless, patriotic, idealistic, and morally consciences. This generation produced America's first astronauts, Nobel laureates, legendary movie stars, and political leaders. Many members have been label heroes for their outstanding accomplishments.

For all their rationality and success in other areas, GI achievements in literature (especially poetry) in the creation of art are comparatively slight. GIs created a bland, accessible, conformist, commercial culture that would itself face a reaction among youth.

All in all, they have more changed the course of American history since the American Revolution. They were the bulk of the soldiers on both sides of World War II; they created prosperity in both victors and vanquished countries after the war; they kept the Cold War from becoming a nuclear war; they presided over the de-colonization of the Third World and the weakening of institutional racism in America and South Africa as well as the almost complete demise of Marxism-Leninism. They also created a firm basis of progress in scientific achievements and in entrepreneurial success.

G.I. celebrities (with death dates in parentheses)

• 1901 Louis Armstrong (1971)
• 1901 Walt Disney (1966)
• 1902 Ray Kroc (1984)
• 1902 Meyer Lansky (immigrant) (1983)
• 1902 John Steinbeck (1968)
• 1902 Langston Hughes (1967)
• 1902 Strom Thurmond (2003)
• 1903 Lou Gehrig (1941)
• 1903 Bing Crosby (1977)
• 1903 Bob Hope (immigrant) (2003)
• 1904 Cary Grant (immigrant) (1986)
• 1904 Robert Oppenheimer (1967)
• 1904 Willem de Kooning (immigrant) (1997)
• 1904 Glenn Miller (1944)
• 1905 Howard Hughes (1976)
• 1905 Cliff Arquette (1974)
• 1906 Josephine Baker (emigrant) (1975)
• 1906 William J. Brennan (1997)
• 1906 Philip Cortelyou Johnson (2005)
• 1906 Billy Wilder (immigrant) (2002)
• 1907 John Wayne (1979)
• 1907 Warren E. Burger (1995)
• 1907 Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (1998)
• 1907 Katharine Hepburn (2003)
• 1907 William Levitt (1994)
• 1908 John Kenneth Galbraith (immigrant) (2006)
• 1908 Arthur Goldberg (1990)
• 1908 Thurgood Marshall (1993)
• 1908 Harry Blackmun (1999)
• 1908 Joseph R. McCarthy (1957)
• 1908 Jimmy Stewart (1997)
• 1910 Czesław Miłosz (immigrant) (2004)
• 1910 John Wooden
• 1911 Lucille Ball (1989)
• 1911 Vincent Price (1993)
• 1911 Raphael Robinson (1995)
• 1912 Milton Friedman (2006)
• 1912 Thomas P. O'Neill ("Tip") (1994)
• 1912 Jackson Pollock (1954)
• 1913 Rosa Parks (2005)
• 1914 Sammy Baugh
• 1914 Joe DiMaggio (1999)
• 1914 William Westmoreland (2005)
• 1914 William S. Burroughs (1997)
• 1914 Jonas Salk (1995)
• 1915 Frank Sinatra (1998)
• 1915 Billie Holiday (1959)
• 1916 Robert McNamara
• 1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor
• 1917 Kirk Kerkorian
• 1918 Richard Feynman (1988)
• 1918 Billy Graham
• 1918 Ann Landers (2002)
• 1918 Sam Walton (1992)
• 1918 Ted Williams (2002)
• 1919 Jackie Robinson (1972)
• 1920 Mario Puzo (1999)
• 1920 John Cardinal O'Connor (2000)
• 1920 John Paul Stevens
• 1921 John Glenn
• 1921 Marija Gimbutas (immigrant) (1994)
• 1922 Judy Garland (1969)
• 1922 Jack Kerouac (1969)
• 1922 Kurt Vonnegut(2007)
• 1923 Chuck Yeager
• 1923 Jack Kilby (2005)
• 1923 Henry Kissinger (immigrant)
• 1924 Lloyd Alexander
• 1924 Lee Iacocca
• 1924 Tom Landry (2000)
• 1924 Marlon Brando (2004)
• 1924 George Mikan (2005)
• 1924 William Rehnquist (2005)

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William Jarid Levitt (February 11, 1907 - January 28, 1994), is the real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. ... John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908–April 29, 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Justice Harry Blackmun Harry Andrew Blackmun (November 12, 1908 – March 4, 1999) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994. ... Joseph McCarthy This article is about the American politician. ... Jimmy Stewart, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own... 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There have been seven G.I. Presidents. Here are their birth dates (and death dates for those that have died):

• 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969 (1973)
• 1911 Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989 (2004) - Neither Reagan nor Carter served overseas in the military during WWII; all other G.I. Presidents did.
• 1913 Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 (1994)
• 1913 Gerald Ford, 1974-1977 (2006)
• 1917 John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963 (1963)
• 1924 Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 - Neither Reagan nor Carter served overseas in the military during WWII; all other G.I. Presidents did.
• 1924 George H. W. Bush, 1989-1993

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Cultural endowments

• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead
• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (film, Walt Disney)
• Casablanca, screenplay, Julius Epstein and Philip Epstein
• Citizen Kane (directed by and starring Orson Welles)
• "In the Mood" (song, Glenn Miller)
• The Honeymooners (TV show, Jackie Gleason)
• The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt)
• A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
• Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• West Side Story (Broadway show and movie, Leonard Bernstein)
• The Making of the President: 1960 (Theodore White)
• Modern Economic Growth (Simon Kuznets)
• Roots (book and TV miniseries, Alex Haley)
• Peanuts (comic strip, Charles M. Schulz)
• Profiles in Courage, (John F. Kennedy)
• The Feminine Mystique, (Betty Friedan)
• War and Remembrance, (Herman Wouk)
• Star Trek (TV series and movie spin-offs), Gene Roddenberry
• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, and Practices, Peter F. Drucker
• A Theory of Justice, John Rawls

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Foreign Peers

• Hirohito (1901-1989)
• Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)
• Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (1902-1975)
• Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)
• Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
• Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942)
• Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)
• Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
• Adolf Eichmann (1905-1962)
• Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966)
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
• Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982)
• Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
• Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-1944)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
• Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005)
• Donald Bradman (1908-2001)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
• Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996)
• Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
• Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997)
• Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995)
• Todor Zhivkov (1911-1998)
• Kim il Sung (1912-1994)
• Alan Turing (1912-1954)
• Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani) (1912-1978)
• King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1912-1982)
• Willy Brandt (1913-1992)
• Benjamin Britten (1913-1978)
• Yuri Andropov (1914-1984)
• Alec Guinness (1914-2000)
• Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982)
• Edith Piaf (1915-1963)
• Francis Crick (1916-2004)
• Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
• Arthur C. Clarke (1917-)
• Nicolae Ceauşescu (1918-1989)
• Anwar Sadat (1918-1981)
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-)
• Nelson Mandela (1918-)
• Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980)
• Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
• Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
• Alexander Dubček (1921-1992)
• King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (1921-2005)
• Akio Morita (1921-1999)
• Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989)
• Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995)
• Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001)

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