Daily U.S. Casualties for Mr. Bush's War

Daily U.S. Casualties 6/9/2004


As of Tuesday, 825 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 607 died as a result of hostile action and 218 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 687 U.S. soldiers have died -- 498 as a result of hostile action and 189 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's num bers as of Tuesday.

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 5,013 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

The latest deaths reported by the U.S. military:


A Marine was killed Monday while on patrol in Anbar province.


A U.S. soldier was killed and 10 U.S. soldiers were wounded Tuesday by a car bomb in Baqouba, Iraq.


The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Sgt. Jamie A. Gray, 29, Montpelier, Vt. died Monday in Scania, Iraq, when his military vehicle hit a roadside bomb; assigned to Army National Guards Headquarters, Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 86th Field Artillery, Williston, Vt.