A small group of Japanese soldiers, with the sign of a white flag, chose over suicide to surrender to American Forces...

White flag of surrender

Soon after D-Day, still on board one of the ships, American servicemen use a captured Nazi flag as a tablecloth; Normandy area, France, June 1944. 

Makeshift tablecloth

Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, - rear center - acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division and his staff celebrate Christmas with a modest dinner in the barracks, while the town is surrounded with German forces and given an ultimatum to surrender; Bastogne, Belgium, December 25, 1944. 

