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There have been 1,543 coalition deaths -- 935 Americans, 11 Australians, one Belgian, 243 Britons, 134 Canadians, three Czech, 28 Danes, 21 Dutch, seven Estonians, one Finn, 36 French, 31 Germans, two Hungarians, 22 Italians, three Latvian, one Lithuanian, four Norwegians, 16 Poles, two Portuguese, 11 Romanians, one South Korean, 26 Spaniards, two Swedes and two Turks -- in the war on terror as of December 24, 2009, according to a CNN count. Below are the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors whose deaths have been reported by their nation's governments. The list also includes two U.S. Defense Department civilian employees. The troops died in support of the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom or the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. At least 4,720 U.S. personnel have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon.
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Staff Sgt. Paul A. Sweeney 32 Company A, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) Lakeville, Pennsylvania Killed when his unit was ambushed while on patrol north of Musa Qula in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on October 30, 2003
William Carlson 43 Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency Southern Pines, North Carolina One of two civilian CIA contractors killed in an ambush near Shkin, Afghanistan, on October 25, 2003
Christopher Glenn Mueller 32 Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency San Diego, California One of two civilian CIA contractors killed in an ambush near Shkin, Afghanistan, on October 25, 2003
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Darrell Jones 22 Guided missile destroyer USS Higgins Wellston, Ohio Died of non-combat related injuries in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates on October 8, 2003
Lt. Col. Paul W. Kimbrough 44 416th Engineer Command, Team 28, U.S. Army Reserve Washington, D.C. Kimbrough was medically evacuated from Bagram, Afghanistan, and flown to the 39th Medical Squadron in Incirlik, Turkey, where he remained hospitalized until his death from a non-combat related cause on October 3, 2003.
Cpl. Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger 29 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Ottawa, Canada Killed when the lead vehicle of his patrol struck an explosive device while on patrol near Camp Julien, the main Canadian camp in southwest Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 2, 2003
Sgt. Robert Alan Short 42 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Fredericton, Canada Killed when the lead vehicle of his patrol struck an explosive device while on patrol near Camp Julien, the main Canadian camp in southwest Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 2, 2003
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