Daily U.S. Casualties 7/23/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 7/23/2004

As of Thursday, 897 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 663 died as a result of hostile action and 234 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 60 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; and Slovakia, three.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 759 U.S. soldiers have died -- 554 as a result of hostile action and 205 of nonhostile causes.

There were no new deaths reported by U.S. Central Command.

The latest identifications reported by the Department of Defense:


Army Pfc. Nicholas H. Blodgett, 21, Wyoming, Mich.; killed Wednesday by an explosive in Duluiyah, Iraq; assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, Schweinfurt, Germany.


Army Spc. Danny B. Daniels II, 23, Varney,

W.Va.; killed Tuesday in a hostile attack in Baghdad, Iraq; assigned to the 630th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Bamberg, Germany.


Marine Lance Cpl. Mark E. Engel, 21, Centennial, Colo.; died Wednesday at Brook Army Medical Center in Houston of wounds received on July 6 in Iraq's Anbar province; assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.