Nitpick: The movie came out in 1976, not '67.
I remember the scene where Charleton Heston has dinner with his son, who pilots (I think) an SBD. The dialogue went something like “The evening before the greatest sea battle in history, and my son tells me he’s in love with a Japanese girl!” 
Later, after the boy’s plane crashes and he’s horribly burned, he and dad shake hands. My brother and I parodied the scene by looking down at our hands afterward and going “Ewwwwww!”
To be fair, it isn’t a bad movie by 1970s standards (especially when compared to its latest counterpart), but it is full of magic moments like “These Americans sacrifice themselves like Samurai warriors!” and Hal Holbrook’s line to Henry Fonda “Ain’t that worth a hot-diggety-damn, Admiral?”
(GRANDSON, YEARS LATER: Gosh, Gramps! Did you really say that to the Admiral?
HOLBROOK’S CHARACTER: Sure did. And the next day, I found myself on board a PBY headed for Spo-kan!)
These were almost as good as the shots where it looked the Japanese sailors were using suction cups to attach bombs and torpedoes to their planes, and the ending where the Nimitz (one helluva lot bigger than either the Enterprise or Hornet) pulls into a dock populated by people dressed in '70s garb.
I can imagine the boos and hisses that would have come from the audience if the movie had come out in 1942 and ended with “Maybe we’re not really better than the Japs. Maybe we just got lucky.” The headlines the next day would have read I AM NOT AN AXIS SYMPATHISER, SAYS EX-HOLLYWOOD STAR HENRY FONDA.
All together, an enjoyable romp through history that can easily be parodied! 