Marya and General Burkhalter left the camp at seven in the evening with Corporal Langenscheidt as their driver to have dinner with Seth, much to the chagrin of Schultz. He wanted to be the official food tester of another one of LeBeau's wonderful meals tonight, but with the General out of camp LeBeau wouldn't be called upon to make dinner. The German Corporal hadn't returned with his passengers by night roll call, which was a good indication to Hogan that things were going as planned. After lights out, the men of barracks two went into action. Those staying behind knew what to do to cover for the ones going out tonight, Hogan was comfortable leaving Sergeant Olsen in charge. Typically not all five of his men would go out on a job, at least one or two would stay behind, but this wasn't a normal job. Everyone was needed to carry it off safely. Sergeant Baker would be monitoring the radio on the outside chance a message from London came through, or that the underground needed to relay information from Hogan. They made their way downstairs to change into their sabotage dark clothing, meeting up with O'Neill, Sam, and Tiger who were already dressed.
Both Carter and Sam had already triple checked the explosives they were taking with them and handed the backpacks out to the appropriate person. Sam and Jack securely strapped their Zats onto their uniform pants, as Kinch handed out US made 45 pistols, German Lugers, and automatic rifles to the rest of the team. O'Neill accepting a rifle and passed one over to Sam, then he checked his ammunition. He would have loved to have the firepower of their P-90 rifles, but there wouldn't be time to police all the brass, and having that technology fall into the hands anyone in this time period was too dangerous. At least if a Zat was captured, no human could reproduce it. Sam and O'Neill were wearing their earpiece radios, which would allow them to communicate with each other. Although, Sam had tried but there just weren't enough spare parts laying around in order for her to rig something up so everyone on the team would have a personal radio. The handheld large walkie-talkies the team had were too big and bulky for a covert operation such as this. O'Neill and Hogan doubled checked the team to make sure everyone had what was needed before giving them the thumbs up to go.
Each person headed out the emergency tunnel exit one by one avoiding the roaming spot light. Once all eight were above ground, they made their way to the road where Tiger's team was waiting with a truck to take them to the laboratory. O'Neill rode shotgun with the driver to show him where they wanted to stop and hide the truck. The last half mile of the trip would be made on foot, so as not to alarm the two guards on duty at the gate. Fifteen minutes later the group arrived at the predetermined spot and the truck pulled off the road letting the passenger's out. One of Tiger's people would hide the truck in the woods, and stay with it until everyone returned to ensure they had transportation out of there.
The group made its way to the laboratory through the forest until they came to a spot where they could observe the compound without being seen. A short wooden fence that was no trouble surrounded the laboratory; there were three small storage buildings near the front of the main building. The guard shack revealed the customary two guards stationed to check identification of anyone entering the compound.
"What do you think?" Hogan asked O'Neill as they observed the compound.
"That light on over there should be the light in Pierre's office," he responded before he took out a small personal one-eye night vision scope checking out the area. It was a tool he'd and Sam had used many times in their careers, but no one else had ever seen. "It looks clear from back here. Sam, why don't you take Carter, Newkirk, and Kinch and circle around the other side. Let me know what you see from that side."
"Yes sir," Sam replied as she and the men then moved silently through the tree line making sure to stay out of sight of any patrols. They made their way to an advantage point, where they could see the entire front and far side of the compound. Sam touched her earphone to turn it on, "Colonel, it looks clear from here." Then Newkirk tapped her shoulder pointing to a shadow, "Hold on Colonel, we have movement on this side."
A scientist came out of the laboratory near the front of the building, and went into one of the adjacent storage sheds close to where Sam and the others were hiding. They all held their breath until the scientist went back into the main building. "We're all clear here sir," Sam relayed back to her commanding officer.
"What happened?" O'Neill requested over their comm link.
"One of the scientists took a box out to the storage shed and then went back inside. He didn't give any indication that he saw or suspected that we were out here, sir." Sam replied relieving O'Neill's concerns of being discovered.
"I think we're ready to go in," O'Neill said to everyone after relaying what had occurred.
Hogan had Tiger send her two best people who spoke fluent German to take out the two soldiers in the guard shack. In anticipation of their post, they were wearing Luftwaffe uniforms; one was dressed as a Corporal and the other as a Sergeant. Her other three underground members moved out across the compound in search of any additional guards that might be patrolling the area.
Hogan, O'Neill, Tiger, and LeBeau made their way to the back of the building as Sam, Carter, Newkirk, and Kinch went in through the front door of the laboratory, each team surreptitiously moving forward to their way to their individual assignments. Newkirk and Kinch went in first to deal with any resistance they might encounter. As they entered the building, a lone guard looked up from his post where he'd been reading his copy of Mein Kampf. He called out for them to 'halt', instantly Newkirk took aim at him and fired. The German dove and rolled out of the way taking cover, but not before he hit the emergency button sounding the alarm.