Daily U.S. Casualties 8/24/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/24/2004
As of Monday, 958 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 716 died as a result of hostile action and 242 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, 820 U.S. soldiers have died -- 607 as a result of hostile action and 213 of nonhostile causes, according to Monday's numbers.

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


A soldier was killed Monday by a roadside bomb in west Mosul.


A Marine was killed in a vehicle accident Saturday in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

In three separate incidents, one Marine was killed in action and three Marines died of wounds received in action Saturday in Al Anbar Province.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

Killed Friday near Samarra, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device exploded near their vehicle; assigned to the Army National Guard's 216th Engineer Battalion, Hamilton, Ohio:


Army 1st Lt. Charles L. Wilkins III, 38, Columbus, Ohio.


Army Pfc. Ryan A. Martin, 22, Mount Vernon, Ohio.


Killed in action Saturday in Al Anbar Province; assigned to 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.:


Marine Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez, 22, San Bernardino, Calif.


Marine Sgt. Jason Cook, 25, Okanogan, Wash.


Marine Lance Cpl. Seth Huston, 19, Perryton, Texas.


Marine Pfc. Nachez Washalanta, 21, Bryan, Okla.


Army Pfc. Kevin A. Cuming, 22, White Plains, N.Y., killed Saturday in Baghdad in a grenade attack; assigned to the 1st Squad ron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.


Marine Cpl. Christopher Belchik, 30, Alton, Ill., killed in action Sunday in Al Anbar Province; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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