Daily U.S. Casualties 6/6/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/6/2004

As of Friday, 813 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 596 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, 675 U.S. soldiers have died -- 487 as a result of hostile action and 188 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Friday.

There was no update provided by the military on Saturday.

The latest deaths reported by the U.S. military:


Two soldiers were killed in Baghdad by a roadside bomb Saturday.


The latest identifications reported by the Pentagon:


Marine Lance Cpl. Todd J. Bolding, 23, Manvel, Texas; died Thursday of wounds received from hostile action in Iraq's Anbar Province; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force; Camp Pendleton, Calif.