U.S. Daily Casualties 8/12/2004

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U.S. Daily Casualties 8/12/2004

As of Wednesday, 929 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 691 died as a result of hostile action and 238 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 62 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 one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 791 U.S. soldiers have died -- 582 as a result of hostile action and 209 of nonhostile causes, according to the Defense Department.

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 6,276 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

New deaths reported by the military:

Two U.S. Marines were killed Wednesday night when a CH-53 helicopter crashed landed in Anbar province.

[German-Lefty]

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