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The Trident Conference included six White House meetings of military officials, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, held May 12-25, 1943; and the 83d through 96th meetings of the Combined Chiefs of Staff held from May 13 to 25, 1943, in Washington, D.C. Items considered during these meetings included HUSKY, global strategy, India-Burma-China theater, U-boat warfare, conduct of the war in 1943-44, defeat of the Axis Powers in Europe, and operations UPKEEP and QUEENS. The volume contains the minutes of the Algiers Conference which consisted of three meetings (May 27 and 31 and June 3, 1943) at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's villa in Algiers. Present at these meetings were U.S. and British members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff plus Prime Minister Churchill and Anthony Eden. These meetings centered on HOBOGOBLIN, Post-HUSKY, operation SOAPSUDS, and the situation in the Mediterranean.