Daily U.S. casualties 7/27/2004 -- up to 906

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Daily U.S. casualties 7/27/2004

As of Monday, 906 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 671 died as a result of hostile action and 235 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 60 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 death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 768 U.S. soldiers have died -- 562 as a result of hostile action and 206 of nonhostile causes.

The military reported no new deaths.

The latest identifications report ed by the Defense Department:


Army Sgt. Tatjana Reed, 34, Fort Campbell, Ky.; killed Thursday in an explosion near Samarra, Iraq; assigned to the 66th Transportation Company, Kaiserslautern, Germany.


Army Spc. Nicholas J. Zangara, 21, Philadelphia; killed Saturday in an explosion in Tikrit, Iraq; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.