Daily U.S. Casualties 6/21/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/21/2004

As of Sunday, 832 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 613 died as a result of hostile action and 219 died of non-hostile causes. The department did not provide an update over the weekend, but the military reported a Marine killed Saturday in Anbar province.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; and 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, 694 U.S. soldiers have died -- 505 as a result of hostile action and 190 of non-hostile causes, the military said.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

A Marine was killed in action Saturday in Iraq's Anbar Province.


No new identifications were reported by the military.