[1] The cemetery was established on 29 December 1944 by the 609th Quartermaster Company of the U.S. Third Army while Allied Forces were containing the German Ardennes offensive in the winter of 1944/1945.

Under a U.S.–Luxembourg treaty signed in 1951 the U.S. government was granted free use in perpetuity of the land covered by the cemetery.

During the 1950s, the original wooden grave markers were replaced with headstones made of white Lasa marble.

Not far from the cemetery entrance stands the white stone chapel, set on a wide circular platform surrounded by woods.

It is embellished with sculpture in bronze and stone, a stained-glass window with the insignia of the five major U.S. commands that operated in the region, and a mosaic ceiling.