I doubt that anyone born in the USA in 1946 remembers ration books.
They remember their parents talking about them. My FIL is in this age group and still has his parent’s ration books.
I don't. We got a FADA TV in 1949. It was Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and Kate Smith every day. On the radio, while my mother ironed in the kitchen, was Helen Trent and marching around the breakfast table with Don McNeill. We listened to Arthur Godfrey sometimes. I forget when wrestling was on TV, but we always had a full house for that.
I was born in 1940. I remember ration books, packets of yellow die to color the vegetable oil so it looked like butter. Milk deliveries of bottles with cream in the top. I lived near Fort Meade, MD and watched military convoys returning from the war. I saw the barracks where POWs were held. My mom worked at the fort processing young men for the draft. I stayed home from school to watch the atomic bomb detonate. Many, many memories.