Five ships of the class served exclusively in the Pacific Theatre. The other two, and , were assigned for their first combat mission to Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa. This would prove to be "Thomas Stone"s one and only mission, as she was torpedoed, bombed, run aground and subsequently scrapped. "Thomas Jefferson", however, went on to participate in the Sicilian, Italian and Normandy landings in the European Theatre, before being transferred to the Pacific to take part in the final major operation there, the Battle of Okinawa.