Grave markers for Gale D. Helmick in Pine View Memorial Park, Beach Park (Lake county), Illinois.

Gale enlisted in the Army at Fort Leavenworth (Leavenworth county), Kansas on 2 September 1943.

Pfc Helmick was transferred to Company I, 508th PIR on 8 January 1945.

He was discharged at the Separation Center, Camp Chaffee (Sebastian county), AR on 22 January 1946.

His military decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge for action during the Normandy, France Campaign, 6 June 1944 to 9 July 1944.