Daily U.S. Casualties 8/16/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/16/2004

As of Sunday, 931 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 693 died as a result of hostile action and 238 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 63 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, seven; 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, 793 U.S. soldiers have died -- 584 as a result of hostile action and 209 of nonhostile causes, according to the Defense Department.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


A U.S. soldier was killed early Sunday when an improvised bomb exploded in northern Baghdad.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine Lance Cpl. Kane M. Funke, 20, Vancouver, Wash.; died Friday in an attack in Anbar province; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.