Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ruwan jirgin ruwa a Havana, Cuba ya sake kai Amurka zuwa yaki, wannan lokacin a kan Spain a ranar 21 ga Afrilu, 1898. Rundunar Sojoji ta 17 ta sake samun kanta a cikin yakin. Gidaje biyar masu karfi a kan rawanin regimental suna wakiltar sabis na regiment tare da V Corps a Cuba. A cikin watanni uku, sojojin Amurka sun yi yaƙi a cikin dazuzzuka, kuma Sojoji na 17th Infantry sun bambanta kansu. A ranar 1 ga Yuli, 1898, a El Caney, Cuba
: PVT George Berg, PVT Oscar Brookin, CPL Ulysses Buzzard, PVT Thomas J. Graves, 1LT Benjamin Hardaway, CPL Norman Ressler, 2LT Charles DuVal Roberts, CPL Warren Shepherd da PVT Bruno Wende sun sami lambar yabo ta soja mafi girma ga wannan al'umma don ƙarfin hali, lambar girmamawa, duk waɗannan Sojojin sun kasance membobin alfahari na 17th Infantry Regiment.