There is a generation called the Silent Generation that came after the Greatest Generation and before the Baby Boomers. Children of the Great Depression but too young to fight in WWII. They were basically the GenX of their day. 

My father was in his 50s when I was born, so he is of that Silent Generation. He definitely came off a lot different than Baby Boomers, and in many ways a lot closer to Greatest Generation types. The kind of guy that worked hard his whole life, thought for himself, didn’t complain, and left his little spot in the world better than how he found it. 

 "Strong men create good times"