Dominick F. Gallo was born in 1922 in New Jersey. He was the son of Robert James Gallo and the husband of Esther Minnie (nee Kautz).

Dominick had two years of high school and was single with dependents upon enlistment. He enlisted in Newark, New Jersey, on December 8, 1942. He served in Company B, 2nd Ranger Battalion, as a Technician 5th Grade during World War II. He was Killed in Action on June 6, 1944, in Vierville-sur-Mer, during the American assault on Omaha beach in France.

A Chicago Tribune story referenced events of D-Day from a journal kept by Captain Sidney A. Salomon of B Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion. In it, Capt. Salomon recalled being met with relentless enemy gunfire while in their landing crafts as they approached the shore. "Gallo was hit along with Olander. Gallo was hit in the body, and with each succeeding burst of the Jerry machine gun was repeatedly wounded. He crawled toward the water and was last seen being covered by fast incoming tide." Olander was also injured and did not survive.

T5 Gallo is now buried in the Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov