war baby

American  

noun

1. a child born or conceived in wartime.

2. an illegitimate child born in wartime of a parent in the armed forces.

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war baby British  

noun

1. a child born in wartime, esp the illegitimate child of a soldier

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Etymology

Origin of war baby

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Born on July 20, 1944, I'm a little "young" to remember him, though I was a war baby in an era when Congress still sometimes declared war before America made it.

From Salon

He was a war baby, born on Nov. 20, 1942, just as the British army was seizing the port of Benghazi from the Nazis in the North Africa campaign.

From Washington Post

Their answer: baby boomers, war babies and people born in the 1930s.

From Washington Post

As a war baby, born in New York a month before Pearl Harbor, I sensed a world of danger in whispered conversations and screaming headlines I couldn’t read.

From New York Times

Logically, it’s the post-second world war baby boomers driving the business of death apps – and coincidentally, the death rates of people between 55 and 64 also jumped in 2013.

From The Guardian