More than that. Cunning ham was Da Man in 'Nam. He was an ace in a war that produced only a few American aces, and there's evidence that one of the guys he shot down was a North Vietnamese ace.
Phantom Showtime by Robert Taylor. Cunningham and his backseater Willie ‘Irish’ Driscoll make a 500 knot pass by USS Constellation after shooting down their first MiG. VF-96 pilots went by the "Showtime" callsign.
Here's Hasegawa's 1/48 scale model of Cunningham's bird, which I intend to build after I clear my massive backlog of kits.
Here's the box art for the kit, as Cunningham rolls into position to shoot a Sidewinder...
...and get a kill. This pic is "Showtime 100" by Phillip West.
Cunningham was an amazing pilot, and a perfect example of what one German WWI ace said: "It is the skill of the pilot, not the crate that he flies, which matters." Sorry for any F-4 fans, but as much as I love the ol' Rhino, it was a wallowing pig in a dogfight compared to the MiGs it was put up against.
That said...if Duke is as dirty as he now looks, he needs to do one thing, the only thing that would be best for himself, his constituents, his party and his country:
EJECT! EJECT! EJECT!