On the afternoon of 2 November 1944, the German troops built a line of defense that led from the Wilde Sau minefield to the west side of the road.

The supply route for the American troops was the old Zweifaller Straße, via which heavy tracked vehicles could be brought to the front during the fighting.

Around noon on 10 November, the German commanders opened a half-hour heavy artillery bombardment at the head of the forest and on the American front line southwest of Hürtgen.

[3] On the night of 12 November, the American troops briefly retook the Hürtgen forester's lodge, but were repulsed by the Germans in the morning hours.

It was a wounded American soldier who was calling for help on the embankment of the eastern road, in the middle of no man's land between the front lines.

Lieutenant Lengfeld gave the order under no circumstances to shoot any American medics who might be approaching, so that they could rescue and treat the wounded soldier.

Since around 10:30 a.m. local time the wounded soldier's calls for help continued even after hours, Lieutenant Lengfeld ordered his own paramedics to form a rescue team.

Gees speculates in his report that the wounded US soldier was able to save himself to the American lines before the area was recaptured by the German Wehrmacht on 13 November 1944.