[citation needed] During World War II, the adventurous John Singer Sawyer, nicknamed Buz Sawyer, became a Naval Aviator and flew as an ace Navy fighter and dive bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater where he had numerous adventures with his sidekick, enlisted Naval Aircrewman Rosco Sweeney.

[1] As a civilian in the post-World War II years, Buz became an oil company troubleshooter, traveling to far-flung locales.

However, Crane was an employee of the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which owned the rights to the Tubbs and Easy characters.

Crane approached King Features with an idea for a new strip, and when they offered him ownership, he abandoned Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy in 1943, giving full concentration to launching Buz Sawyer.

Crane remembered the events this way: Granberry began writing Buz Sawyer during the 1940s, continuing as the strip's scripter until 1983.

In 1946, 31-year-old Henry G. Schlensker, who had created Biff Baker with Ernest Lynn (1941–45), settled in Orlando, where he became Crane's art assistant.

Schlensker, who fought with the Army Air Corps in East Asia during World War II, died in 1997 at the age of 82.

[5] After World War II Roscoe often worked on a farm with his sister Lucille[6] near Indiantown, in Martin County, Florida.

In June 2006, King Features' email service, DailyINK, now Comics Kingdom, began running Buz Sawyer dailies from the beginning.