 Draper also covered invasions of Saipan and Guam aboard the USS "Tennessee" (BB-43).During his tour on the Tennessee, the ship was hit three times by enemy fire, and they were forced to land at Guam.On returning to the U.S. after the war, Draper married Barbara Natalia Cagiati in Washington, DC., where he completed three murals commissioned for the Naval Academy in Bancroft Hall.