European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Ambulance train unload ma5cal 63 victims for ride of Hospital in Frankfurt Pali Enli from simulated wreck Are transferred from train 9 mass for i handling a a foully so Geol Light Holli a . Troop train near grow Gerau Germany. Another train carrying american troops from Heidelberg to Bremerhaven approaches the same spot. Sud Denly there u a sickening crash at the two trains collide. This was the simulated situation As Frankfurt s 97th general Hospital put its mass casually preparedness to the test. Called Mascal 1963, the exercise was realistic to the nth degree. An ambulance train a Dis patched to the Gross Gerou Railhead taking some 400 casualties to the Bonames Ger Many Railhead for evacuation to the 97th by elements of the 57lh medical in. The entire staff of the Hospital from the commander col Byron 1. Sieger on Down was marshalled to the task. Casts were applied wounds treated emergency operations performed and blood collected. In a Little less than three hours 92 pints of blood were actually drawn most of ii contributed by men of Hanau Post. The entire lest was completed almost without a hitch.  and observers agreed on one thing if the real thing comes the 97rh to ready freshly made up injured victims lie on Stretcher awaiting transportation. P�9� 12 Thi stars and stripes Nundo