Meanwhile, the six Pacific destroyers operated in the Solomon Islands (where "Ellet" was ordered to sink the Australian heavy cruiser after the Battle of Savo Island), and were on hand for the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13–15 November 1942, in which "Sterett" was badly damaged and "Benham" sunk. "Lang", "Sterett", and "Stack" formed division "A-2" at the Battle of Vella Gulf in 1943 and, thereafter, all five remaining ships accompanied the advance through the Marshalls and Marianas. Reassigned as DesDiv 4 of DesRon 2, the former DesDiv 15 ships were at Leyte and later Okinawa; "Ellet" was at Iwo Jima. In April 1945, "Sterett" and "Wilson" were both damaged in "kamikaze" attacks while on radar picket duty; "Wilson" remained in service while "Sterett" returned to service as the war ended. "Sterett", "Ellet", and "Lang" were scrapped in 1947. The others, contaminated as targets in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, were decommissioned and scuttled in deep water off Kwajalein in 1948.