You can look it up. On 7 Dec 1941 they Navy had no landing craft.
The US military had fallen way behind almost everyone. No one had really good beach assault boats. The US Navy simply did not see the threat or need. And what few budget dollars they got went to other things. We had strict isolationist laws on the books at the time so no one saw the need. Heck the Army was under 150,000 men when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. In 1940 they were authorized to go to about 270,000 men. In 1941 prior to Pearl Harbor they authorized the Army to go to 1.4 million with less than 500,000 active duty. That should give you some idea just how unprepared the US was.
Most senior officers in the Navy did not see aircraft as a major threat on 6 Dec 1941 as far as the fleet was concerned. Some officers, flyers mostly thought that you could win a war with bombers only. No boots on the ground. Among there were General Curtis Lemay (US), Herman Goring (remember he was a WW1 ace), and "Bomber Harris". Most senior Naval officers didn't think that Japan was a threat at all. Then 9 months later they launch the first of many landings, at Guadalcanal. It was a learning curve for everyone involved. Mistakes were going to happen and did. Both the Navy and Marines took to heart the lessons they learned at Guadalcanal and they learned more from each subsequent island invasion.
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