Daily U.S. Casualties 4/29/2004

Daily U.S. Casualties 4/29/2004


As of Wednesday, 722 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 521 died as a result of hostile action and 201 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 582 U.S. soldiers have died -- 410 as a result of hostile action and 172 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

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


A soldier died Wednesday from injuries received a day earlier in a grenade attack west of Mosul, Iraq.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army

Sgt. Sherwood R. Baker, 30, Plymouth, Penn.; killed Monday in an explosion in Baghdad; assigned to the National Guard's Company B, 2nd Battalion, 103rd Armor Regiment, Tamaqua, Pa.


Army Sgt. Lawrence A. Roukey, 33, Westbrook, Maine; killed Monday in an explosion in Baghdad; assigned to the Army Reserve's Detachment 1, 3rd Battalion, 304th Regiment, 98th Division, Lewiston, Maine.

And the hole keeps getting deeper and deeper and deeper and...

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