 Florida National Guard historian Robert Hawk noted that, “In the course of the Second World War, no unit of the Florida National Guard had more men killed, wounded in action, or dead from other causes than Company E, 124th Infantry.”  The Live Oak unit was reorganized several times over the years as infantry, tank, and engineering companies, and now (2019) serves as the 868th Engineer Company.The unit has purportedly been called up to serve more than any other unit in Florida.In 1944, African-American Willie James Howard was lynched in Live Oak for having "expressed his affections" to a white girl.