title: Eye of the Wolf: One Russian Rifle against the German SS Panzer Tanks during WW-II
author: Ray McComber
description: Ray McComber was born, raised, and educated in northwestern Nebraska ranch country. He immediately went into the air force after college then to Vietnam. After Vietnam, he went to graduate school, obtaining additional degrees in computer science, business administration, and an MBA in international finance. He then went on to writing financial computer programs and system design applications and worked in this field until retiring. He has out another book, RatPack Airlines. It is about an air force gunship crew and the low-and-slow air war over Southeast Asia. He now lives in southwestern Colorado in the mountains where he, his wife, and dog enjoy golfing, skiing, hiking, and the peaceful views of the open country.
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  Wolves At Bay
  
  
  Just as we hit the ground floor, the front door opened, triggering the
  tripwire.
  
  
  When I say that we’d set in early-warning devices, what I really meant was
  that we’d taken a page from part of our escape and evasion in Slovakia. I’d
  run a tripwire across the doorway to a grenade, which had already had the pin
  removed, the lever being held in place by the can that was currently taped to
  a table leg. When the first Panzergrenadier hit the tripwire, it yanked the
  grenade loose, freeing the lever with a faint ping, drowned out by the thump
  of the ball of explosive hitting the plank floor.
  
  
  I could have used a flashbang, but anybody coming through that door was going
  to be a hostile.
  
  
  We heard the scramble, with a yell in German, from where the stairs had come
  down near the restrooms in the back. Phil knew just what that noise portended,
  and stayed just short of the corner leading to the main room.
  
  
  A moment later, the grenade went off with a tooth-rattling thud, f