Daily U.S. Casualties 4/22/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 4/22/2004

As of Wednesday, 707 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 511 died as a result of hostile action and 196 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Ukraine, four; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 569 U.S. soldiers have died -- 402 as a result of hostile action and 167 of nonhostile causes.

No new deaths were reported by the military.

The latest identification, reported by the Maine National Guard:


Army Spc. Christopher D. Gelineau, 23, Portland, Maine; killed Tuesday in an explosion outside Mosul, Iraq; assigned to the National Guard's 133rd Engineering Battalion, Portland, Maine.