[clarification needed][27]. Granted a short-term commission as a Reserve lieutenant commander, Johnson was on a tour of the Southwest Pacific, gaining political points for the 1942 election before President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalled uniformed congressmen. "We all did our best for our respective countriesGlorifying death was a mistake; because I survived, I was able to move on - to make friends in the U.S. and other countries.". Sabur Sakai participated in the IJNAS's last wartime mission by attacking two reconnaissance Consolidated B-32 Dominators on 18 August, which were conducting photo-reconnaissance and testing Japanese compliance with the ceasfire. "I knew that I had to leave my Sakai was not prepared After returning from the Philippines, he flew in the East Indies and New Guinea, fighting Dutch, Australian and American aircraft. terrified faces, he was moved to mercy. He had an