Dozens of Fallujah wounded arriving at U.S. military hospital in Germany
By Panos Kakaviatos, Associated Press, 11/11/2004 13:58

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Medical staff at a U.S. military hospital in southwest Germany are expanding bed capacity to care for scores of wounded from Iraq, including many from the assault on Fallujah, officials said Thursday.

A planeload with 53 wounded from Iraq arrived Thursday morning and another with 49 more was expected to arrive Thursday evening at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center together making an anticipated 102 for the day, spokeswoman Marie Shaw said.

''We are very busy,'' Shaw said. ''We have seen an increase of patient arrivals since the outbreak of the Fallujah conflict.''

On Wednesday, 64 wounded were brought in.

The large number of wounded sent to Germany suggests that fighting may be more intense, at least in some areas, than the military had initially indicated.