Francisco Rodriguez
Resendez
By Katherine Hearty
It was Frank Resendez's first night in New Guinea in November of 1943 and his company had carelessly left on the residential lights. A mistake that could have cost them their lives, as the rumbling and reverberating of detonating war bombs thundered throughout the night sky.
Luckily, however, the company was spared.
Resendez's journey to World War II began 22 years earlier in the town of Bluff Springs, Texas, about 10 miles south of Austin.
Born Francisco Rodriguez Resendez on Jan. 29, 1920, he lived in Texas until he was 9 months old.