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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/4/2004
As of Tuesday, 916 U.S. service members have died since the military operations began in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 680 died as a result of hostile action and 236 died of nonhostile causes.
The British military has reported 60 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Poland, seven; Bulgaria, six; 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, 778 U.S. soldiers have died -- 571 as a result of hostile action and 207 of nonhostile causes, according to the Defense Department on Tuesday.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 6,089 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.
The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:
Two U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb late Monday in Baghdad.
Two Marines died of wounds sustained in fighting Monday in Anbar Province west of Baghdad.
A Marine died Tuesday from a noncombat-related gunshot wound.
One soldier died in a vehicle accident.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
Army Spc. Anthony J. Dixon, 20, Lindenwold, N.J.; died Sunday when an explosive went off near his guard post in Samarra, Iraq; assigned to 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.
Army Spc. Armando Hernandez, 22, Hesperia, Calif.; died Sunday when an explosive went off near his guard post in Samarra, Iraq; assigned to 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.
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