Daily U.S. Casualties 6/19/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/19/2004


As of Friday, 831 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department.

Of those, 612 died as a result of hostile action and 219 died of nonhostile causes.

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

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 693 U.S. soldiers have died -- 503 as a result of hostile action and 190 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

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


A U.S. soldier was killed Friday when six mortars hit a 1st Cavalry Division camp in southern Baghdad.


The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Spc. Jeremy M. Dimaranan, 29, Virginia Beach, Va.; killed Wednesday in a mortar attack in Balad, Iraq; assigned to the Army Reserves 302nd Transportation Company, 172nd Combat Support Group, Fort Eustis, Va.


Army Sgt. Arthur S. Mastrapa, 35, Apopka, Fla.; killed Wednesday in a mortar attack in Balad, Iraq; assigned to the Army Reserves 351 Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade, Ocala, Fla.