JD Brownlow and Ted Saylor   Carrier Aircraft Service Unit - CASU (f)44 This website is established to honor the men of CASU (f)44. During World War II they were a part of the Greatest Generation that fought and died for our freedom. The two guys in this pictures became best friends. The one on the left is my father, Jeff Deen "Tex" Brownlow and on the right is Ted Saylor. Ted Saylor Special thanks to Ted Saylor who during his time on Tinian took and developed most of the pictures on this website. I had the pleasure of meeting Ted, his former wife Mary Jane and two sons, Kim and Cory. Thanks to them, this site has the opportunity to show a small sampling of what Ted and JD saw during their time in the war. Jeff Deen Brownlow JD "Tex" Brownlow joined the Navy at the age of 17 on May 5th 1943 and went to boot camp at Corpus Christy Texas and then to Norman Oklahoma on June 8th 1943, attending AOM School, NATTC for Ordnance training in Class A Service School. Upon completion of Ordnance training JD was assigned as of Sept 24th 1943, to ComFAir, Sand Point Naval Air station in Seattle, Washington and on April 6th 1944 was transferred by train to Point Mugu, Hueneme, Calif(LA). Here they created a group (about 1100 men) for CASU (f) 44 which had been activated Feb 22, 1944. April 22nd 1944 CASU (f)44 embarked from Continental US shipping out for Kaneohe Bay Naval air station and on July 1944 CASU 44 was assign to Oahu. In Hawaii JD met Ted Saylor and they spent 7 weeks at Kaneohe Naval Air Station. JD was station on Tinian Island in Aug 1944 and was there to the end of war. Their camp was about 1 to 1.5 miles from the B29 base where his team worked on F4Fs F6Fs (carrier fighter planes) and loaded bombers, B-24s and B-29s, with bombs and depth charges. JD came back to the states landing at San Francisco. On Feb 21st 1946, at USNPSC Camp Wallace Texas, JD was discharged as Aviation Ordnance Man Second Class March 7th 1946 and went back to Waco, Texas.