I think you're mixing small scale and large scale considerations, subnuts, and your confusion is the result. A single person can be brave/heroic/whatever in the smallest of conflicts. The size of the conflict overall has no bearing on the merits of the individuals involved.
As for the PT being "boring" I couldn't comment.
As for it being a "side show", by which I assume you mean small scale, it is a fact that the Germans and Russians each lost more men in a single battle than the US lost in the whole war.
The US Navy specifically lost 62,000 men in WW2 (I'm not sure what that translates to in numbers of ships) where as the British Commonwealth naval forces lost more than half a million. No matter which way you look at it, the Pacific War was small-scale compared to everything else that went on.
I think your POV is being coloured by your personal ties to people that served.
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