Yes at some point prior to invading Guadalcanal someone realized that the ships were loaded wrong and the strike prevented them for being reloaded but that means when those ships left the US someone had not figured out how they had to be loaded. It was after all the 1st of many landings that the US would make (not all in the Pacific) during the war. With the nations neutrality laws prior to 7 Dec 1941 no one really gave invading anything much thought. Most thought was defensive, not offensive. So packing a ship for an invasion with plans to offload in primitive conditions had not had much is any effort put into it.
Prior to WWII but post WWI all US military effort was aimed at defense. If troops were deployed, like they were to South America in the late 20's and 30's (look up banana wars), they expected to sail into a friendly or secured harbor with docking facilities. They expected to be able to off load ships in a somewhat relaxed atmosphere. No one spent any effort at planning an invasion. The brass would have been horrified at the very idea. All it would take is a disgruntled junior officer or enlisted clerk working on it to let a congressman or senator know about it or leak it to the news media. Congress would not have been amused at the head lines "US NAVY PLANING TO INVADE"! Not too long before the attack on Pearl Harbor they had guys throwing punches in congress over our isolationist laws. So I'm not faulting the Navy for not really knowing what they were doing 8 months after Pearl. Heck even after Coral Sea and Midway they were still trying to figure out the shift from battleships to carriers.
Have any of you guys interested in WWII ever wondered why the Navy and US Army never figured out pre-invasion bombardment through the entire war? It's even more confusing after you look at England's "earthquake bomb" that could have really disrupted Japanese cave defensive positions. The "tall boy" bomb was available Jun 44. Those dropped on the islands would have had much greater effect on the Japanese that the battleships guns did. They left a crater 80 feet across and 24 feet deep and could penetrate about 16 feet of concrete. Just a side note......
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