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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/24/2004
As of Wednesday, 842 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 622 died as a result of hostile action and 220 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, 704 U.S. soldiers have died -- 513 as a result of hostile action and 191 of nonhostile causes, according to the military as of Wednesday.
The military reported no new deaths and there were no new identifications.
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