American combat deaths for the first half of 1969 increased rather than decreased during the time in which the plan was allegedly being implemented.

On 3 July the battalion lost its first member in a combat death.

Russian officials have since admitted to perhaps 1,500 combat deaths in the conflict.

The Ninth would endure only two other combat deaths during its existence.

The first combat deaths of the insurgency were in 1980.

Britain had suffered no confirmed combat deaths since April 6.

The last British combat death was reported on April 6.

But when it's a combat death, you can say the right things.

Of the 356 combat deaths in the gulf war, 211 were among support personnel.

The American military reported five more combat deaths as well.