[1] The majority of the fallen buried at Henri-Chapelle were killed during the Allied push in Germany during late 1944 and early 1945.

The fallen from two key military engagements fill the cemetery; the First United States Army's drive through northern France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg into Germany in September 1944; and the Battle of the Bulge (including the Battle of Hurtgen Forest and later taking of Aachen).

Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service began to repatriate the bodies to the United States.

Disinterments began on 27 July 1947, and the first shipment of bodies left the Belgian port of Antwerp in October 1947.

There is a chapel and visitor center containing carved granite maps showing the advance of U.S. forces across Belgium and into Germany.