Daily U.S. Casualties 6/4/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/4/2004

As of Thursday, 813 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 596 died as a result of hostile action and 217 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 675 U.S. soldiers have died -- 487 as a result of hostile action and 188 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Thursday.

There were no new deaths or identifications reported Thursday.