Daily U.S. Casualties 8/6/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/6/2004

As of Thursday, 921 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 684 died as a result of hostile action and 237 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 61 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, 783 U.S. soldiers have died -- 575 as a result of hostile action and 208 of nonhostile causes, according to the Defense Department on Thursday.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:


A 13th Corps Support Command soldier was killed and five were wounded in Balad when their convoy was attacked Thursday with a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire near Najaf.


There were no new identifications reported by the military.