Daily U.S. Casualties 10/5/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 10/5/2004

As of Monday, 1,058 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, 803 died as a result of hostile action and 255 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three military 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, 920 U.S. military members have died -- 694 as a result of hostile action and 226 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Monday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Two U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday by small arms fire at a traffic control point near Baghdad, Iraq.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Sgt. Christopher Potts, 38, Tiverton, R.I.; killed Sunday while manning a traffic control checkpoint in Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq; Rhode Island National Guard, Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 103rd Field Artillery, Provi dence, R.I.


Army Sgt. Michael A. Uvanni, 27, Rome, N.Y.; killed Friday in Samarra, Iraq, by a sniper; assigned to the Army National Guard, 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment, Morrisonville, N.Y.


Army Staff Sgt. Mike A. Dennie, 31, Fayetteville, N.C., died Wednesday in Balad, Iraq, from injuries sustained on Sept. 22 in Baghdad in a vehicle rollover; assigned to the 106th Finance Battalion; Kitzingen, Germany.