Daily U.S. Casualities 6/2/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualities 6/2/2004


As of Tuesday, 806 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 217 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; 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, 668 U.S. soldiers have died -- 480 as a result of hostile action and 188 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Tuesday.

The Department of Defense has not updated its number of wounded this week because of the holiday. Since the start of military operations, 4,682 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the department's numbers of last week.

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


Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action Monday in the Al Anbar Province while conducting security and stability operations.

The Pentagon reported no new identifications.