Daily U.S. Casualties 7/9/2004

Daily U.S. Casualties 7/9/2004

As of Thursday, 868 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 645 died as a result of hostile action and 223 died of nonhostile causes.
The British military has reported 59 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 730 U.S. soldiers have died -- 536 as a result of hostile action and 194 of non-hostile causes. The latest deaths reported by military:


Five U.S. soldiers were Thursday killed in Samarra, Iraq, by a car bomb and mortar attack against military headquarters


The latest identifications reported by the military:



Army Sgt. Michael C. Barkey, 22, Canal Fulton, Ohio; died Wednesday in Ramadi, Iraq, from a vehicle accident; assigned to the Army National Guard's 1484th Transportation Company; Akron, Ohio.


Marine Cpl. Jeffrey D. Lawrence, 22, Tucson, Ariz.; killed Tuesday in Iraq's Anbar province; assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force; Camp Lejeune, N.C.


Marine Lance Cpl. Justin T. Hunt, 22, Riverside, Calif.; killed Tuesday in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.