Sticking War Babies in with the Silents is really NOT accurate! Late Silents remember WW II, War Babies don't! They are a tiny bridge between the two and share some things with both late Silents and very early Boomers.
War Babies lived through rationing, but don't remember it. They remember paper drives at school, to help the War effort during the Korean War; Boomers have NO idea what that even was.
There are many more such examples.
My father tried to fight in WWII, but was too young. He served in the Korean War as the port 5 inch gunnery officer on USS Iowa. On Sept 22, 1952, his gun crew wiped out the entire Winter ammunition stores of the communists at Won San Harbor.
I'm a boomer and quite cognizant of my father's contribution to the Korean and Viet Nam wars. Both of my parents endured rationing during WWII. You have a lot of misinformation about "boomers". It's a broad brush that does not fit reality.