 On the flagbridge, Vice-Admiral Mitscher barely escaped, but lost twelwe of his staff officers including his own medical officer.Many of "Bunker Hill's" pilots died either in their planes or inside the skin of the ship during the attack.22 fighter pilots of "Bunker Hill's" air group, CVG-84, were killed in the ready room by the explosion of the bomb which immediately burned all oxygen in the room and asphyxiated the men.