U.S. Daily Casualties 6/16/2004

U.S. Daily Casualties 6/16/2004

As of Tuesday, 827 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 609 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, 689 U.S. soldiers have died -- 500 as a result of hostile action and 189 of nonhostile causes, accord ing to the military's numbers as of Tuesday.

Since the March 2003 start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 5,138 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:

An unknown number of civilian contractors were killed Tuesday in an attack on their convoy in Baghdad.


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


Army Spc. Eric S. McKinley, 24, Corvallis, Ore.; died Sunday in Baghdad when his vehicle was attacked; assigned to the Army Reserves Company B, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, Corvallis, Ore.