[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

12 years ago, in GW-I, a friend of mine had a brother there who was a Medivac helicopter pilot. One day during the ground action one of the officers, a Lt Col, I believe, had my friend's brother take him up for a look around. As they flew over the Kuwaiti desert they came on a group of a couple hundred Iraqi soldiers who waved white flags at them and surrendered. There only weapon was he Col's side arm. They called for troops to come and get the surrendering Iraqis.

[AnAmericanMother]

In WWII, my dad (all of a 1st lieutenant) and a small group of his platoon in two jeeps took the surrender of an Italian Army colonel and his regiment.

They had to wait outside while the colonel shaved and put on a fresh uniform to surrender in. They had a glass of wine while they waited.

It was all in good humor, and they treated the colonel and his men with courtesy. Dad said he was happy that nobody got shot! ("That's the way to fight a war," quoth he.) :-D