Eugene L. Bernstein was born in 1921 in New York. He resided in Kings County, New York prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on March 19, 1942 in New York City, New York. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Manager and also as Single, without dependents. Eugene served as a First Lieutenant and Navigator on B-24J #42-100184, 373rd Bomber Squadron, 308th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

B-24J #42-100184 took off, with a crew of 7 and 3 passengers, from Yangkai, China on a ferrying mission to Chabua, India. The last heard from them was a radio transmission noting they were 30 minutes east of Chabua. They crashed, for an unknown reason near Cheppe, Arunachal Pradesh, India during the war. This aircraft, along with evidence of human remains, was located December 2010 by MIA Recoveries, Inc. Remains have not as yet (2018) been recovered and/or identified.

He was declared "Missing in Action" on May 25, 1944 and is commemorated on the Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines. He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is also commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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