Daily U.S. Casualties 9/8/2004

Daily U.S. Casualties 9/8/2004

As of Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1,003 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count based on Defense Department records and AP reporting from Iraq. That count includes 1,000 service members and three military civilians.

The Defense Department's most recent published count, as of Tuesday, Sept. 7, shows 998 U.S. service members dead. Of those, 752 died as a result of hostile action and 246 died of nonhostile causes. In addition, the Defense Department lists the deaths of three Defense Department civilians, for a total of 1,001.

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.

According to the military's numbers Tuesday, 860 U.S. soldiers

have died since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. Of those, 643 died as a result of hostile action and 217 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers Tuesday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


One soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack Wednesday near Balad.


Seven Marines were killed Monday in a car bomb attack near Fallujah, Iraq.


One soldier was killed when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad late Monday.


One soldier died early Tuesday from wounds sustained from a roadside bombing against his con voy a day earlier in Baghdad.


One soldier died Monday from wounds sustained during an unspecified attack in Baghdad.


One soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack near Qayarrah, just north of Baghdad.


Two soldiers were killed in a rocket-propelled grenade strike during clashes in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City early Tuesday.


One soldier was killed by small arms fire Tuesday in west Baghdad.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Staff Sgt. Gary A. Vaillant, 41, Trujillo, Puerto Rico; died Sunday in Khalidiya, when his tank ran over an explosive; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 72nd Armor, Camp Casey, Korea.


Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott, 21, Grand Island, Neb.; killed Saturday in an attack in Iraq; assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, Port Hueneme, Calif.