Daily U.S. Casualties 7/10/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 7/10/2004


As of Friday, July 9, 875 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 651 died as a result of hostile action and 224 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, 737 U.S. soldiers have died -- 542 as a result of hostile action and 195 of nonhostile causes. The latest deaths reported by military:


A soldier died Thursday in a nonhostile incident.


The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Pvt. 1st Class Samuel R. Bowen, 38, Cleveland;

died Wednesday in Samarra, Iraq, when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded near his vehicle; assigned to the Army National Guard's 216th Engineer Battalion; Akron, Ohio.


Marine Lance Cpl. Scott E. Dougherty, 20, Bradenton, Fla., and Marine Pfc. Rodricka A. Youmans, 22, Allendale, S.C., 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.