Nico was spreading triple creme cheese on chunks of French deli-baked baguette. "Probably yes, when he was found", he said. "But if he was found by French Resistance, they were close to or on Nazi-held territory. Most likely they were carrying a local crop and driving a farm vehicle adapted to look local -- but with hidden comparments and a supply of French farm worker clothes and false identities. You should know that however innocuous they looked, there was always the fear of being stopped. Ted's uniform and identifying information would have been destroyed. Given the predictability of interrogation, his French rescuers would not want to know who he was until they reached comparative safety. It would have been assumed that if he lived, when he was somewhat recovered, he himself would know who he was."

"But couldn't US Army Field Stations eventually identify him?"