Daily U.S. Casualties 7/8/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 7/8/2004


As of Wednesday, 867 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 645 died as a result of hostile action and 222 died of nonhostile causes. The military did not provide an update over the holiday weekend.

The British military has reported 59 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, 729 U.S. soldiers have died -- 536 as a result of hostile action and 193 of nonhostile causes, according to the military as of Wednesday.

The latest deaths reported by military:


A soldier assigned to the 13th Corps Support Command was killed Wednesday in a vehicle accident near Ramadi, Iraq.


The latest identifications reported by the military:

Killed Monday in Anbar province; assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.:


Marine Cpl. Dallas L. Kerns, 21, Mountain Grove, Mo.


Marine Lance Cpl. Michael S. Torres, 21, El Paso, Texas.


Marine Lance Cpl. John J. Vangyzen IV, 21, Bristol, Mass.