Nonsense LH, during the reign of Elizabeth I, "naval" operations against the Spanish amounted to little more than licensed piracy. What damaged the Spanish more than any vain glorious action on the part of Sir Richard Grenville or the English, was the contribution of the Dutch who both on land (They won their independence and kicked the Spanish out of the Netherlands) and at sea completely mastered their enemy. While the English tried to capture one of the Spanish convoys from the New World and always failed, the Dutch actually succeeded.

Your statement about allied losses only holds true if you take into account the Russian front, where Russian losses were attributable to their tactics and Stalin's disregard for human life. In the west Allied losses were a fraction of those suffered by the Germans.