Bernard Salt places the Australian baby boom between 1943 and 1960,[16][17] while the Australian Bureau of Statistics defines the boom as 1946 to 1964.[citation needed]
Another definition for the Baby Boom is the decade after the Second World War, that is 1946 to 1955.[citation needed] This date range in the US correlates neatly with the strongest cultural identifiers of the boomer generation, i.e., the involvement of the US in the Vietnam War and the draft. In 1973 the U.S. both ended its draft and moved to an all volunteer army and ended its military activity in Vietnam. Of course, males born in 1953-1955 could not have foreseen the end of the draft or the war and "came of age" fully internalizing those events.