Scope and Contents The Laney Garrett Reed Letters Collection offers an insight into the life of a U.S. WWII soldier stationed across France and Germany in 1945. The letters featured in the collection are correspondence between Laney Garret Reed, U.S. soldier, and his mother Ruby Alice Miller Reed. Laney Garret Reed’s correspondence provides insight into the compensation, housing, and duties of a WWII soldier in 1945. Reed was stationed in Normandy and Marseille, France and Wiensbaden, near Frankfurt, and...