RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - Former American hostage Thomas Hamill, who escaped his Iraqi captors after three weeks in captivity, arrived today in Germany for a reunion with his wife and treatment at a U.S. military hospital, a spokeswoman said.

Hamill of Macon, Miss., pried open the doors of the house where he was being held on Sunday and ran a half-mile to a U.S. military convoy passing by near the town of Balad, north of Baghdad.

The 43-year-old civilian contractor, who suffered a gunshot wound, was to be reunited with his wife, Kellie, at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl spokeswoman Marie Shaw said.

It was not clear when she would arrive.

A truck driver for a Halliburton subsidiary, Hamill was captured April 9 by gunmen who blasted the supply convoy he was driving on the outskirts of Baghdad. Hamill's captors had threatened to kill him unless the United States lifted its siege of the city of Fallujah.

Hamill's escape came two days after Marines started pulling back from Fallujah under a new agreement ending their assault on the insurgent stronghold.

A C-141 transport plane brought him to the Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

The U.S. military has said Hamill is in overall good health, but a gunshot wound to his left arm might be infected. Shaw said Landstuhl staff were standing by to treat him.

Hamill was among seven American contractors kidnapped in the April 9 attack. The bodies of four have been found and two are missing.

A U.S. soldier kidnapped in the same convoy attack as Hamill, Pfc. Keith M. Maupin, was seen in separate video footage. The remains of a second military man missing in the attack, Sgt. Elmer Krause, were identified April 23.