Daily U.S. Casualties 7/15/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 7/15/2004


As of Wednesday, 883 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 653 died as a result of hostile action and 230 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; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 745 U.S. soldiers have died -- 544 as a result of hostile action and 201 of nonhostile causes.

The latest deaths reported by military:


Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two were injured Wednesday in a vehicle accident near Tall Afar.


The latest identifications reported by the military:

Army Pfc. Torry D. Harris, 21,

Chicago; died Tuesday in Tikrit of noncombat injuries; assigned to the 12th Chemical Company, Kitzingen, Germany.


Two soldiers died Sunday in a vehicle accident near Hillah; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Brigade, Baumholder, Germany:

Army Sgt. James G. West, 34, Watertown, N.Y.


Army Spc. Dana N. Wilson, 26, Fountain, Colo.