Odd how pundits and academics can never agree from month to month, year to year just when the babyboomer generation started.
In my reading for decades most (but not nearly all) pundits considered the war babies born in the wake of pearl harbor to be the start of the boomers. In the last couple of decades you don’t see that window as often (although you do still see it).
All of this conspires to make the term rather meaningless.
WAR BABIES have NEVER been lumped in with the BOOMERS and have a much closer affinity to those born in the decade before them, than to those born in '49 and after. They are a tiny and kind of displaced neither here nor there mini generation who were crowded out by the BOOMERS and ignored, for the most part.
Could you be so kind as to name the source you have for sticking those born after Pearl Harbor in with the BOOMERS, as I haven't seen such a thing, ever, and it's a topic of interest to me.