All three ships of the class saw action during the Battle of Midway (4–7 June 1942), "Enterprise" and "Yorktown" aircraft were responsible for sinking all four Japanese carriers engaged in the battle, while "Hornet" assisted in the sinking of one heavy cruiser and severely damaging another. All three carriers suffered severe losses among their air groups, most notably "Hornet"s Torpedo Squadron 8, which lost 15 aircraft with only a single surviving airman. "Yorktown" was damaged by aerial bombs and torpedoes and abandoned on 4 June. Later re-manned by repair crews, the ship was spotted and torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and eventually sank on 7 June 1942.