Daily U.S. Casualties 7/2/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 7/2/2004


As of Thursday, 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.

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


A soldier died in a non-combat related vehicle accident Wednesday just north of the Iraq-Kuwait border.


A soldier was killed Thursday by an explosive attack on a convoy south of Mosul, Iraq.

A Marine was killed Thursday in Iraq's Al Anbar Province while conducting security and stability operations.


The latest identifications reported by Pennsylvania Marine Reserve officials:

Killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in Baghdad; assigned to Bridge Company B, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, Folsom, Pa.:


Marine Sgt. Alan D. Sherman, 36, Wanamassa, N.J.


Marine Cpl. John Todd III, 25, Bridgeport, Pa.


Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Adle, 21, Belair, Md.