I don't disagree with MSW's post or any of the comments below.  And yet, the battle that has always fascinated me was Midway.  That too was America at it's best when Admiral Nimitz took a big risk on his intelligence being correct, Admiral Spruance made a calculated decision to rely on American pilots understanding they were potentially being sacrificed to carry out this once in a lifetime situation to take out Japanese Aircraft Carriers.  It certainly helped that luck did not treat the Japanese nearly as well as it did the US,  forcing the Japanese command staff to make decisions that cost them four carriers because they didn't get the information from one scout plane in one critical quadrant.  This battle turned the War in the Pacific.

War is a not very efficient way to solve international conflicts.  That seems to be the one lesson the US can't learn from WWII, but our old enemies have learned.  The US may never learn it at the rate we rely on and fund our military.