Daily U.S. Casualties 4/30/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 4/30/2004


As of Thursday, 724 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 522 died as a result of hostile action and 202 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; 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, 586 U.S. soldiers have died -- 413 as a result of hostile action and 173 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:


A 1st Infantry Division soldier was killed Thursday morning by a roadside bomb in Baqoubah, north of Baghdad.


Eight 1st Armored Division soldiers were killed Thursday in a car bombing south of Baghdad.


A soldier was killed Thursday morning in an attack in Baghdad.


A soldier died Thursday from injuries sustained in a nonbattle vehicle accident Wednesday in Baghdad.



The latest identifications reported by the Defense Department:


Army Spc. Jacob R. Herring, 21, Kirkland, Wash.; died Wednesday in Mosul, Iraq, after an explosive struck his vehicle in Talafar, Iraq; assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.


Army Pfc. Marquis A. Whitaker, 20, Columbus, Ga.; died Tuesday in a vehicle accident in Scania, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, La.

[Racenut20]

1. 823 dead if you count the rest of the countries.