Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Daga baya, Roper zai karbi umurnin USS Wisconsin (BB-64) don watanni na ƙarshe na yakin duniya na biyu, ya maye gurbin Earl E. Stone. A wannan lokacin, ya jagoranci Wisconsin a yakin Okinawa. Don hidimarsa a lokacin yakin, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Legion of Merit. A baya can, an ba shi Takardar yabo don ayyukansa a yankin Kudancin Pacific, a lokacin da ya taimaka wajen tsara shirin Guadalcanal da Solomon Islands
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