Question: Which was fought first, Battle of Hürtgen Forest or Battle of Okinawa?
Context: Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell (January 22, 1920 – March 1, 2011) was a highly decorated former United States Army Ranger who served in World War II.  He is best known for his actions in the first hours of D-Day at Pointe du Hoc on the coast of Normandy, France.  Pointe du Hoc was the site of the German Army’s largest coastal weapons, five 155-millimeter German guns with a 25-kilometer range that endangered the tens of thousands of troops landing on Omaha Beach and Utah Beach, and thousands of watercraft in the English Channel supporting the Normandy invasion.  Unbeknownst to the Allied intelligence, the Germans had concealed the guns in an orchard, but left them operational and ready to fire.  Through skill, courage and “pure luck,” Lomell found and quickly disabled all five guns.  Lomell was recognized by historian Stephen Ambrose as the single individual — other than Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower — most responsible for the success of D-Day.  Six months later, in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, he would again distinguish himself, earning a Silver Star for his heroism and leadership as the 2nd Ranger Battalion captured and held Hill 400.  After the war he returned to Ocean County, New Jersey, becoming an attorney in Toms River. John Wilson Minick (June 14, 1908 – November 21, 1944), born in Wall, Pennsylvania, near East McKeesport in Allegheny County, to Anthony Fuhrman and Alma J. (Churchfield) Minick, whose patriarchal Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry can be traced back to the 1700s in Perry County, Pennsylvania.  He was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in World War II. The Hürtgen forest (also: Huertgen Forest; German: "Hürtgenwald" ) is located along the border between Belgium and Germany in the southwest corner of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.  Scarcely 50 sqmi in area, the forest lies within a triangle outlined by the German towns of Aachen, Monschau, and Düren.  The Rur River runs along the eastern edge of the forest. The Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads was fought at a vital crossroads near a forester's cabin named Wahlerscheid, astride the Siegfried Line ("Westwall") that ran along the Höfen-Alzen and Dreiborn ridges, about 5.6 mi north of Krinkelt-Rocherath, Belgium.  In early December 1944, the U.S. V Corps trucked the experienced 2nd Infantry Division from positions it had held in the south to Krinkelt-Rocherath, twin villages adjacent to Elsenborn Ridge and near the southern tip of the Hürtgen Forest. Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 is a free modification developed by Darklight Games / The Darkest Hour Team for Tripwire Interactive's multiplayer first-person shooter video game "", It is based on the Western Front during World War II between 1944 and 1945, depicting the conflict between Allied and German forces.  Several large-scale operations are covered, including the invasion of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Operation Market Garden, and Battle of the Hürtgen Forest. When Trumpets Fade, an HBO war film first presented on June 27, 1998, was directed by John Irvin, produced by John Kemeny and written by W.W. Vought.  It is set during the World War II Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Autumn of 1944. During the Second World War, Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by British XXX Corps (which included the U.S. 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944.  "Clipper" was the preliminary to the wider Allied operation, named Operation Queen to gain control of the Roer valley and the Hürtgen Forest. The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: "Schlacht im Hürtgenwald" ) was a series of fierce battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944 between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest about 50 mi2 east of the Belgian–German border.  It was the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and is the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought. Hürtgenwald is a municipality in the district of Düren in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.  It is located in the Eifel hills, approx. 15 km south-west of Düren.  Much of the area is covered by forest (Hürtgenwald in literal translation means Hürtgen Forest). The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦 , Hepburn: Okinawa-sen ) (Okinawan: 沖縄戦 , "Uchinaa ikusa " ), codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the April 1, 1945, invasion of Okinawa itself.  The 82-day battle lasted from April 1 until June 22, 1945.  After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations for the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Answer: Battle of Hürtgen Forest