Daily U.S. Casualities 6/1/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualities 6/1/2004

As of Monday, 804 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 589 died as a result of hostile action and 215 died of nonhostile causes.

The department did not provide an update Monday, but the U.S. Central Command reported four new deaths.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 666 U.S. soldiers have died -- 480 as a result of hostile action and 186 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

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


Two soldiers were killed Monday when their patrol was ambushed by small-arms fire and a rocket-propelled grenade south of Kufa, Iraq.


A soldier died Sunday from wounds sustained in a mortar attack the previous day in Mosul, Iraq.


A soldier was killed Sunday when his vehicle struck an explosive south of Baghdad.

The latest identifications reported by the Pentagon:


Marine Lance Cpl. Benjamin R. Gonzalez, 23, Los Angeles; died Saturday in hostile action in Iraq's Anbar Province; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force; Camp Pendleton, Calif.


Army Spc. Michael J. Wiesemann, 20, North Judson, Ind.; died Saturday at Quyarrah Air Base, Iraq, of noncombat related injuries; assigned to the Army's 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division; Fort Lewis, Wash.


Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brian J. Ouellette, 37, Needham, Mass.; assigned as a Navy SEAL, Special Warfare Group Two; Little Creek, Va. The Defense Department gave no details about his death.