Daily U.S. Casualties 8/28/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 8/28/2004


As of Friday, 968 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 724 died as a result of hostile action and 244 died of non-hostile 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, 830 U.S. soldiers have died -- 615 as a result of hostile action and 215 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:


A soldier died Friday after his truck rolled off an embankment near Fallujah, Iraq.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

Army Spc. Charles L. Neeley, 19, Mattoon, Ill.; died Wednesday in Tikrit, Iraq, when his tractor-trailer rolled over; assigned to the Army Reserves 454th Transportation Company; Columbus, Ohio.


Army Staff Sgt. Donald N. Davis, 42, Saginaw, Mich.; died Tuesday in Fallujah, Iraq, when a tractor and a tanker trailer rolled over an embankment; assigned to the U.S. Army Reserve's 660th Transportation Company; Zanesville, Ohio.

[still_one]

1. 974 at least

There have been 1,105 coalition deaths, 974 Americans, 65 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, one Estonian, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, 10 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and eight Ukrainians, in the war in Iraq as of August 27, 2004


http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

[yelladawg]

2. You are right

I think there are more deaths than are reported from the US Military which is where I get my figures.