His duty is to cure injured soldiers in an improvised hospital located at the war-torn French frontier.

Dependent patients who go to Munich for consultation are billeted at the Columbia and Excelsior Hotels.In War Hospital, you will take on the role of Major Henry Wells, a retired British army medic who was re-enlisted to serve in the war. It has the facilities to serve a hot meal during the trip. The train has a capacity of 12 litter and 6 amubulatory patients. The hospital train is staffed by a nurse and six enlisted technicians. For the return trip (patients released from the Army hospital on their way back to their units), the train departs from Munich on Fridays at 3:05 pm each week. The train is scheduled to depart from Fuerth on Thursdays at 8 am and arrive in Munich at 1:52 pm. The hospital train is designed to augment ambulance runs from Straubing Sub-Area dispensaries to the Army hospital in Munich and from the Hohenfels Sub- Area dispensary to the Army hospital at Nu ernberg. The 329th is responsible for medical evacuation of patients for primary hospitalization and consultation services in the Southern Area Command area. I still talk to one man from Tennessee every so often, but after 50 years what can we actually talk about?Ĭompleted its first run (a one-car diesel engine) to Munich in Dec 1954. At first they responded then they gradually dropped off. I have been in touch with a few of the men when I wrote an ad that was placed in the American Legion magazine. The picture you had posted of the train is exactly what our train looked like. The trains were kept about a mile from our barracks at McNair Kaserne in Hoechst.They were kept on a siding there.This was the two car diesel. We also had a kitchen where our cook prepared meals for our patients while they were onboard. We operated a two car diesel - one car was for stretchers and the other car was for ambulatory patients and our crew. We would stay in Munich on Monday night and then start by loading up patients at Munich on Tuesday morning and make our way back to Frankfurt. We started out on a Monday morning and stopped at all the stations where we would pick up patients on our way back from Munich. Our mission was to transport patients from Munich back to Frankfurt. Was part of the 57th Medical Battalion and we were stationed at the McNair Barracks in Hoechst, Germany.

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