"Anything" is *possible*, I suppose. Capture papers issued to a soldier from the N. African TO seem to me to be highly unlikely, as the US was just getting into the war in Europe during the N. African campaign (perhaps most famously, "the Big Red One").
Back then, enlistees/draftees were "in for the duration", and the drawdown didn't happen until well after the war in Europe had been won, and the war in the Pacific had been decided as well. I know for a fact that many ETO veterans were to be redeployed to the PTO for the upcoming invasion of the Japanese home island of Kyushu, until the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
I would view any "capture papers" from the N. African theater of operations with deep suspicion. Such documents are altogether too easy to fake... I cannot state categorically that such papers do not exist, but in my limited experience I've never come across any.
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