Box 1
Container
Contains 7 Results:
Letters, 1945
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1945
Box 1
Box — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1945
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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Laney Garrett Reed Letters
Letter from Laney to his mother about the estimated date of his deployment to Europe, family affairs, Bible study, and salary (3 pages), 2/28/1945
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
2/28/1945
Letter from Laney in France to his mother about the troop transport to France and Normandy's land and people (2 pages), 4/12/1945
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
4/12/1945
Letter from Laney in Germany to his mother contrasting the hardships of French and German civilians he's encountered, describing living arrangements, building prisoner-of-war enclosures, and hunting rabbits (4 pages), 5/1/1945
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
5/1/1945
Letter from Laney in Germany to his mother about the difficulties of fueling a gas lantern and speculating on whether he will stay in Germany, go home or be shipped to the Pacific (3 pages), 5/1945
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
5/1945
Letter from Laney in France to his mother about the black market in Marseille and the locations where his construction battalion served in Germany (3 pages), 6/14/1945
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
6/14/1945