Colt .45 with capture papers

[alanint]

The gun is a commercial model, not a US issued weapon, (see the "C" prefix to the serial number). This may have been a French officer's private purchase or simply a gun sold in Europe prior to ww2.
I agree that the Lt. probably fudged the "French" designation so that nobody would take the pistol from the GI thinking it was goverment property.