Barbed Wire - How best to use it??

[Ralph Metzger]

If using FTs, put it in the middle so that the FTs are in woods behind it and can area fire into the edge of the wire. For the others, put it on the edge nearest you. Be really nasty and let them come through. When most of the enemy have cleared it (the wire) and are moving through the open ground to get to the next cover, open up with MGs and sqd fire to run them back. Use anything you have to drive them back to the woods with the wire. Just keep hammering them. The wire will slow them down. By the time they get out of it, if they are not dead already, they will be so depleted or exhausted that they will not rejoin the fight. LOS or spotting the wire is not important. You can put it near or far. The question is whether or not the enemy feels the need to come through it. Sometimes the sight of wire won't change an attack. It normally don't affect mine. Honestly, does it affect yours.
Ralph