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Daily U.S. Casualties 9/1/2004
As of Tuesday, 975 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 729 died as a result of hostile action and 246 died of nonhostile causes.
The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, 10; 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, 837 U.S. soldiers have died -- 620 as a result of hostile action and 217 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Tuesday.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 6,916 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.
No new deaths were reported by the military Tuesday.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
Army Staff Sgt. Aaron N. Holleyman, 26, Glasgow, Mont.; killed Monday in Khutayiah, Iraq, when his vehicle hit an explosive; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Ky.
Airman 1st Class Carl L. Anderson Jr., 21, Georgetown, S.C.; killed Sunday near Mosul, Iraq, in hostile action; assigned to the 3rd Logistics Readiness Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Army Spc. Omead H. Razani, 19, Los Angeles, Calif.; died Friday in Habbaniyah, Iraq, of non-combat injuries; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Greaves, Korea.
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