Sgt. Alessandro Carbonaro, 28, of Bethesda, Md., was wounded May 1 in Anbar province. He died more than a week later at a hospital in Germany, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

Carbonaro had been a Marine nearly eight years. He was a reconnaissance Marine, which meant he did the dangerous job of scouting inside enemy lines, conducting raids and capturing enemies.

Carbonaro's family could not be reached Thursday.

His neighbor, Amelia Holt, said Carbonaro and his wife, Gilda, had owned a home for less than a year in a subdivision just outside Jacksonville, near Camp Lejeune.

The couple had a dog and a bird but no children, Holt said.

Holt said Carbonaro's wife had told her that he suffered severe burns over 70 percent of his body but that she thought he would survive. She told Holt that her husband had recovered once before after being injured.

Holt said Carbonaro's wife left town Sunday with her parents, saying her husband was being transferred to a burn center in San Antonio. She planned to meet him there.

"She was saying that she loved him, it didn't matter if there was going to be burns or scars," Holt said. "She was more worried about his mental state."

Holt said the house was still empty Thursday, and she had not heard from her neighbor.

Carbonaro had been in Iraq two months before he was wounded, a Marine spokesman said, although this might have been one of several tours overseas for the Marine. He received several medals for his service.

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