The American losses in the war with Iran increased again. The American War Department, which refuses to give the statistics of its casualties, again published the statistics drop by drop and added two more people to the casualty list. The United States claimed that one member of the country's air force died of "illness" and another of "unspecified causes" in the midst of conflicts with Iran. The US War Department (Pentagon) tried to pretend that these deaths occurred for reasons other than military reasons.