Daily U.S. Casualties 9/30/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 9/30/2004


As of Wednesday, 1,053 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 800 died as a result of hostile action and 253 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three civilians.

The British military has reported 67 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 13; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, eight; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; the Netherlands, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary and Latvia have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 915 U.S. military members have died -- 691 as a result of hostile action and 224 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Wednesday.

The military reported no new deaths Wednesday.

The latest identifications reported by the Department of Defense:

Army Sgt. 1st Class Joselito O. Villanueva, 36, Los Angeles; died Monday when he was shot by a sniper in Balad, Iraq; assigned to 9th Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.


Army Spc. Gregory A. Cox, 21, Carmichaels, Pa.; died Monday when his military vehicle rolled over in Balad, Iraq; assigned to 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt.


Marine Pfc. Kenneth L. Sickels, 20, Apple Valley, Calif.; died Monday in a nonhostile incident in Iraq's Anbar province; assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.