Daily U.S. Casualties 9/15/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 9/15/2004

As of Tuesday, 1,018 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 768 died as a result of hostile action and 250 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three military civilians.

The British military has reported 65 deaths; Italy, 18; Poland, 13; Spain, 11; 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, 877 U.S. military members have died -- 656 from hostile action and 221 from nonhostile causes, according to the military's data Tuesday.

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 7,245 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

Three U.S. soldiers in Iraq were killed in separate attacks Monday and Tuesday.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class David A. Cedergren, 25, South St. Paul, Minn.; died Sept. 11 near Iskandariyah, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Marine Division Fleet Marine Forces Atlantic.


Marine Lance Cpl. Cesar F. Machado-Olmos, 20, Spanish Fork, Utah; died Sept. 13 in a vehicle accident in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.


Army Pfc. Jason L. Sparks, 19, Monroeville, Ohio; died Sept. 8 in Fallujah, Iraq; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, Camp Casey, Korea.