Daily U.S. Casualties 8/20/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/20/2004

As of Thursday, 947 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 706 died as a result of hostile action and 241 died of nonhostile causes.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 809 U.S. soldiers have died -- 597 as a result of hostile action and 212 of nonhostile causes.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

A Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action Wednesday in Najaf. Another Marine died after a vehicle accident in Anbar province.

A soldier was killed Wednesday by small arms fire in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad.