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CHIEF Boatswain's Mate Frank Brant, dressed as Dr. Gadgets, entertains a child at Mercy Hospital. The chief petty officer who is stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67), spends many off-duty hours visiting schools, orphanages and hospitals

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CHIEF Boatswain's Mate Frank Brant, dressed as Dr. Gadgets, entertains a child at Mercy Hospital. The chief petty officer who is stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67), spends many off-duty hours visiting schools, orphanages and hospitals

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Base: Portland

State: Maine (ME)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Kevin Gill

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.

Not a lot of people suffer from a debilitating phobia of clowns but a lot more people, however, just don’t like them, especially in the U.S.A. Some circuses have held workshops to help visitors get over their fear of clowns by letting them watch performers transform into their clown persona. In Sarasota, Florida, in 2006, communal loathing for clowns took a criminal turn when dozens of fiberglass clown statues—part of a public art exhibition called "Clowning Around Town" and a nod to the city’s history as a winter haven for traveling circuses—were defaced, broken, beheaded, spray-painted and abducted.

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14/10/1989
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The U.S. National Archives
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