Military service by twentieth-century generations of american men

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 385-400

  Carlson, Elwood ^a   Andress, Joel ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active duty; Cohorts; Historical generation; War casualties

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849168365     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X08318487     Document Type: Article

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