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Secretary of the Navy Gordon England. (Scan Pattern).


Secretary of the Navy Gordon England officially named the Navy's tenth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, CYN CYN Canyon  77, in honor of WW II Naval Aviator and former President of the United States The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government.

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 during a December 2002 ceremony at the Pentagon.
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Title Annotation:aircraft carrier named after former President George Herbert Walker Bush
Publication:Naval Aviation News
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2003
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