Daily U.S. Casualties 7/7/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 7/7/2004


As of Tuesday, 868 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 646 died as a result of hostile action and 222 died of nonhostile causes. The military did not provide an update over the holiday weekend, but reported the deaths of seven Marines on Monday and Tuesday.

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, 730 U.S. soldiers have died -- 537 as a result of hostile action and 193 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Seven U.S. Marines assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in western Iraq. Three died Monday and four were killed Tuesday.


The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army 2nd Lt. Brian D. Smith, 30, McKinney, Texas; killed Friday in fighting in Habbaniyah, Iraq; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.


Army Staff Sgt. Stephen G. Martin, 39, Rhinelander, Wis.; died Friday of wounds received June 24 in an explosion in Mosul, Iraq; assigned to the Army Reserves, 330th Military Police Detachment, Sheboygan, Wis.

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1. 872 U.S. --- CNN

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
"There have been 990 coalition deaths, 872 Americans, 60 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, one Dutch, one Estonian, one Hungarian, 18 Italians, one Latvian, six Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and six Ukrainians, in the war in Iraq as of July 6, 2004 (Graphical breakdown of casualties). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government. At least 5,394 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does not report the number of non-hostile wounded. This list is updated regularly."