The order also mentions that one Oberst Johann is in charge in Vahlen's absence, carrying the combination to the safe in HQ "if its contents are required". There, on top of a table, he finds a written order by Vahlen stating that he is "at the facility" to oversee the final stages of the project. Navigating through the German positions, amid two Nebelwerfer positions and a couple of tunnels, dodging enemy patrols of foot and mechanized troops, Karl reaches Vahlen's HQ inside the ruins of an ancient monument. Fairburne and Brauer decide to infiltrate the base, with Brauer acting as Karl's spotter. Vahlen is getting paranoic, dissention among the ranks of Project Seuche is getting more and more apparent running out of time, Vahlen stations a Tiger division to protect his HQ at the Kasserine Pass. Karl in front of the The old ruins at the Kasserine Pass, where General Vahlen's office is quartered. Fairburne, identifying the holder of the diary by his wounded hand, kills the officer tasked as the courier and steals the notebook, which details Vahlen's plans to conquer Europe when the Afrika Korps wins in North Africa, with his base of operations somewhere in the Kasserine Pass. They decide one of them is going to Berlin to deliver the diary personally to the Führer. Sneaking into the town, Karl finds out that three officers - "The Three Musketeers" - plan to betray Vahlen to Hitler by giving him the general's personal diary. Some fear him more than they fear General Vahlen, myself among them." Wüstengeist, they call him, the Desert Ghost. Men say he's like the desert sand - he gets everywhere. "As usual, the Allies nip at our heels from the deep desert, but there is a new rumour, one of an allied sniper. Information collected by Brauer led to the Siwa Oasis in Western Egypt. After dispatching a group of Italian paratroopers that arrived inconveniently after freeing the prisoner, Karl provided overwatch to Brauer amid a storm against waves of German and Italian troops trying stop the breakout. Taking the cell key from the German commanding officer, Karl rescued Brauer, the informant. Penetrating the outer defence manned by Italian troops, including Elites, Karl infiltrates the fort.
The fort was previously held by the British during Operation Compass, so the layout of its outer and inner defences were available for study therefore the fort, unassailable to an army, could be penetrated by a single man. The LRDG dropped Karl in front of Fort Rifugio, where the informant was being held. As it happened, he had been compromised and captured before he could find out what Project Seuche was. Hitchhiking with the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), Fairburne opens a path for them amid Flak 88 batteries in Halfaya Pass (called "Hellfire Pass" by the troops) in their search for the informant. The trail of orders found in the bodies of German and Italian officers hinted to a mysterious Project Seuche (literally meaning plague in German). Tobruk was lost but the British Naval Intelligence had noticed Karl's skills and recruited him as an agent to infiltrate the Axis-held oasis of Gaberoun to investigate the whereabouts of a British informant, who had gone missing when following the trail of General Franz Vahlen. In December 1941 to March 1943, Karl Fairburne was a volunteer sniper in the British Army defending Tobruk during the Battle of Gazala. Karl hiding from German Afrikakorps troops, including a Panzer IV. Karl has been charged with various objectives, including: During the Battle of Berlin, Karl was entrusted with the recruitment and elimination of Nazi scientists.
He was often sent as a solo infiltration commando but could operate with friendly forces on the terrain those missions often being of the most top secret espionage missions during the Second World War. Karl's skill as a sniper was unmatched and he became a great asset to the allies during the Second World War. He studied at the United States Military Academy at West Point, shortly after America's entrance into World War II in December of 1941, where he became a qualified Sniper. He was the son of an British-American ambassador to Germany before the war broke out, and was raised in Berlin. Very little is known about Karl's life prior to his military service.
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