[cld51860]

I think I remember reading a few years ago that the average age of the World War II soldier was 26...

[hinckley buzzard]

That is correct. Can you imagine these overgrown children at, say, D-Day, or the siege of Bastogne? Or at home, women working in a defense industry at a second job as a welder after a day as a secretary at the office?

[T-Bone Texan]

The average age of a soldier in Vietnam was about 19, I have been told.

In the 80s there was a new wave song wherein that fact was part of the chorus.