Daily U.S. Casualties 7/1/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 7/1/2004


As of Wednesday, 853 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 632 died as a result of hostile action and 221 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 59 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, 715 U.S. soldiers have died -- 523 as a result of hostile action and 192 of nonhostile causes.

Since the March 2003 start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 5,394 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

No new deaths were reported by the military and there were no new
identifications.