Daily U.S. Casualties 9/2/2004

Daily U.S. Casualties 9/2/2004


As of Wednesday, 976 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department.

Of those, 730 died as a result of hostile action and 246 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, 838 U.S. soldiers have died -- 621 as a result of hostile action and 217 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Wednesday.

No new deaths were reported by the military.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine Lance Cpl. Nickalous N. Aldrich, 21, Austin, Texas; died Friday in a vehicle accident in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.


Marine Sgt. Edgar E. Lopez, 27, Los Angeles; killed Saturday in Babil province, Iraq, in hostile action; assigned to 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.