health.) His more general objective was to encourage physicians and nurses to learn to fly and parachute jump, so that they might put these skills to use in emergency medicine. Pisculli planned a tour of several European cities and that The American Nurse would return to the United States via Ireland in the spring of 1933. Carrying fuel for a 32-hour flight, The American Nurse took off from Floyd Bennett Field at 6:16 am EST on 13 September 1932. Clyde Pangborn was present to see his former aircraft depart. The weather in the North Atlantic was reported to be ideal for the flight. Ulbrich took the "southern" route across the North Atlantic and planned to make landfall in the vicinity of Cape Finisterre, Spain. He estimated that the flight should take 25 to 26 hours. The aircraft was subsequently sighted over Cape Cod, Massachusetts, then by the American Oil Co. tanker Winnebago in mid-Atlantic at 5:50 pm EST and lastly by the liner SS France from its intended landfall in Europe. No further trace of The American Nurse and its crew was ever found. Reports that the aircraft had been sighted over Sardinia could not be confirmed, nor did a search of the central Italian mountains reveal any sign of it. Artifact and commemorationsMiss Veedols propeller, damaged in the trans-Pacific landing, is exhibited at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center in Wenatchee, Washington. The Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site is located north east of East Wenatchee, Washington; the main feature is a basalt column designed by Walter Graham. The site gives views of the Columbia River and the East Wenatchee and Wenatchee Valleys. There is also a public mural in East Wenatchee depicting Miss Veedols Pacific crossing. In addition to the Miss Veedol replica in the Misawa Aviation and Science Museum, there was a somewhat cruder replica of Miss Veedol on display outdoors on Sabishiro Beach at until it was destroyed during the 11 March 2011 tsunami which caused widespread damage in the coastal area of Northeast Honshu. The replica had been replaced as of 2013. A flying replica of Miss Veedol was built over a period of four-plus years by Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 424. This replica (also known as Spirit of Wenatchee) first flew in May 2003. This aircraft is based at East Wenatchee, Washington. See also Spirit of St. Louis Plus Ultra Bird of Paradise BremenReferences Bibliography Heikell,