Marine Corps Master Technical Sergeant A. Paschal had been designated as a Naval Aviation Pilot (NAP) as well as naval aviator (#3105) in 1923. He enlisted in 1909 and had transferred to the fleet reserve in 1930. Awarded the Navy Cross while on active duty with the Marines in Nicaragua.

Flying for Pan American Airways, Paschal as well as his co-pilot and radio operator were killed when their airliner crashed as it approached Guatemala City. Buried initially in Brownsville, Tex., reinterment took place in 1937 at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Paris News
Paris, Texas
10/12/1936

Funeral services were arranged here Monday for three Pan-American airline crew members who lost their lives in a plane erase Saturday southeast of Guatemala City.

The bodies of Captain Archie Paschal, 45, senior pilot of the lines. T. I. Neyman, 23, radio operator, and A. I. Palmer, 20, copilot, were returned here Sunday.

Paschal was survived by his widow and four children, and Neyman by his widow and a 11-months' old son. Williams Kinderman, steward, who also resides here, was injured.
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Navy Cross Citation:
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Master Technical Sergeant Archie Paschal (MCSN: 169886), United States Marine Corps, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as an Airplane Pilot attached to the 2d Brigade, U.S. Marine Corps, operating in the Republic of Nicaragua. During 1040 hours of flying over mountainous and partly unexplored jungle, Sergeant Paschal displayed great courage and skill in attacks on hostile bandit forces, and in flights through dangerous weather for the purpose of locating and supporting ground patrols. During this service he carried, without mishap, approximately 1700 passengers and 840,000 pounds of freight over terrain where a forced landing would, almost inevitably, have resulted in fatalities.