Daily U.S. Casualties 4/15/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 4/15/2004

As of Wednesday, 686 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 492 died as a result of hostile action and 194 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Ukraine, four; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 548 U.S. soldiers have died -- 383 as a result of hostile action and 165 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.


The latest deaths reported by the military:


Four Marines with the I Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in Anbar province, two on Tuesday and two on Monday.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine Pvt. Noah L. Boye,

21, Grand Island, Neb.; died Tuesday from hostile fire in Anbar province; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.


Marine Lance Cpl. Robert P. Zurheide Jr., 20, Tucson, Ariz., died Monday from hostile fire in Anbar province; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.


Army Pfc. Gregory R. Goodrich, 37, Bartonville, Ill., died Friday when his convoy came under attack; assigned to the Army Reserve's 724th Transportation Company, Bartonville, Ill.


Army Staff Sgt. Toby W. Mallet, 26, Kaplan, La.; died Friday when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle in Baghdad. Mallet was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.


Army Spc. Allen J. Vandayburg, 20, Mansfield, Ohio; died Friday when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle in Barez, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Vilseck, Germany.