Fuggin great aircraft, and hats off to their pilots. Top job. These guys deserve giant kudos from any pilot, indeed, from any body except maybe Vietnamese civilians.
Make that 'except maybe the enemy'.
Although the main enemies at the time were that blinkered fool Robert McNamara, LBJ and the legacy-of-LeMay boneheaded, SAC-umsised air staffs. Read Jack Broughton's classic 'Going Downtown' to learn what those brave fighter pilots were up against....
Had they not been so hamstrung by Washington, the Thud drivers would have cut off the North from resupply and very probably brought the Communists to their knees.