Faatumu le fuaiupu o loo mulimuli mai: O le faavaivai o le vaa i Havana, i Cuba, na toe taʻitaʻia ai foʻi le Iunaite Setete i le taua, i le taimi lenei e faasaga i Sepania iā Aperila 21, 1898. Na toe tau ai foʻi le 17th Infantry Regiment. O fale malupuipuia e lima o loo i luga o le faailoga o le vaega, o loo faaāta mai ai le auaunaga a le vaega i le Vaega V i Cuba. E tolu masina o tau fitafita a Amerika i vaomatua, ma na taʻutaʻua fitafita a le 17th Infantry. Iā Iulai 1, 1898, i
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 ma PVT Bruno Wende na maua le taui maualuga a le malo mo le toa, o le Medal of Honor, o nei fitafita uma o ni tagata mitamita o le 17th Infantry Regiment.