The American aircraft returned around 9 o'clock in the morning. One wave of attack after another followed, but the well-hidden train was not hit. A number of houses in Terhagen were hit, but there were no casualties here. One of the passengers on the train died of a heart attack.

Later, on 17 December 1944, a German Messerschmitt dropped a set of flares near the Steiner Woods where the British had a number of storage places. The English anti-aircraft guns opened fire and set fire to the German fighter, which came down in a steep dive and crashed into the Low Woods near Kniensheuvel. The three-man crew was killed and buried at the edge of the woods.