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Daily U.S. Casualties 4/3/2004
As of Friday, April 2, 596 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 406 died as a result of hostile action and 190 died of non-hostile causes.
The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Ukraine, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.
Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 458 U.S. soldiers have died -- 297 as a result of hostile action and 161 of non-hostile causes, according to the military.
Since the start of military operations, 2,988 U.S. service members have been injured as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department.
The latest deaths reported by the military:
A Marine assigned to the 1st Marine Division was killed Thursday in Al Anbar province.
A soldier was killed in an explosion Friday while patrolling the Al Mansour district of Baghdad.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
Killed Wednesday in Habbaniyah, Iraq, when a bomb exploded underneath their armored personnel carrier; assigned to the 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Army 1st Lt. Doyle M. Hufstedler, 25, Abilene, Texas.
Army Spc. Sean R. Mitchell, 24, Youngsville, Pa.
Army Spc. Michael G. Karr Jr., 23, San Antonio.
Army Pfc. Cleston C. Raney, 20, Rupert, Idaho.
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