[1] During and shortly after the war over 16,000 American casualties were interred across the Saint Avold region in France.

Those interred at the Lorraine American Cemetery died mostly in the autumn of 1944 during the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine as the Americans sought to expel the Germans from fortress city of Metz and advance on the Siegfried Line during the latter stages of World War II.

In the late 1940s many bodies from the Saint Avold region were repatriated to the US or concentrated at Lorraine.

The cemetery's headstones are arranged in nine plots forming an elliptical design ending with an overlook feature.

A memorial has ceramic operations maps with narratives and service flags.