Skyraider Archives - James Strauss

THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

The monsoon day wore on, its rain relentless, the river mildly rising in the volume of water passing, and in sound, but nothing we weren’t used to enduring down in the bottom of our own private hell, known as the A Shau Valley.

THE SIXTEENTH NIGHT, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 218 comments

The night was coming on fast, what with the west wall of the valley rising up only a few yards to our backs. The question was not whether we would make a rapid advance down the valley to attack an expected and hopefully unprotected enemy rear, but how and when we...

THE SIXTEENTH DAY SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 147 comments

I looked at Nguyen. His features remained as impassive as ever in the face of our dire situation. We could not get to the end of the bridge without being carried down past the tank into the rapids below that led deep into enemy held territory unless Kilo Company had...

THE FIFTEENTH NIGHT SECOND PART, 30 Days has September

by James Strauss | 160 comments

Fusner found me with some difficulty, as I’d gone pretty deep under the camouflage provided by the packed down plant debris that served as the jungle floor. Although the stuff allowed me to hide from the gunships above, it did nothing in providing any kind of cover. A...

THE FIFTEENTH NIGHT, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 162 comments

Jurgens stood where he was, arms slightly outstretched, but he made no other move, his expression unreadable except for a faint tick arching his left eyebrow up slightly every few seconds. “We are the same,” Jurgens said, splaying his fingers out, like his statement...