An Honorable Discharge certificate and accompanying Enlisted Record and Report of Separation for Technician Fourth Grade Howard E. Silva of the 27th Infantry Division, issued at the Separation Center, Camp Beale, California, on 12 February 1946. Inducted in San Francisco in November 1942, Silva served stateside and overseas as a finance typist clerk, earning campaign credit associated with the Ryukyus operation in the Pacific before returning home at the close of World War II. Preserved in a period photo album, these paired documents illustrate the standardized administrative process by which millions of American servicemen and women transitioned back to civilian life following the war. Project: 218545