Daily U.S. Casualties 8/18/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/18/2004

As of Tuesday, 943 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 703 died as a result of hostile action and 240 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, seven; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; 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, 805 U.S. soldiers have died -- 594 as a result of hostile action and 211 of nonhostile causes.

The latest deaths reported by military:


A U.S. soldier was killed Monday in a series of grenade and ex plosives attacks in eastern Baghdad.

A Marine was killed in action Tuesday in Anbar province.


The latest identifications reported by the military:

Army 2nd Lt. James Michael Goins, 23, Bonner Springs, Kan.; killed Sunday by hostile fire in Najaf, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

Army Spc. Mark Anthony Zapata, 27, Edinburg, Texas; killed Sunday by hostile fire in Najaf, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

Killed Sunday in Anbar province; assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.:

Marine Pfc. Fernando B. Hannon, 19, Wildomar, Calif.

Marine Pfc. Geoffrey Perez, 24, Los Angeles