Trident Features

On 2 September 1945, the surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri brought WWII to a close. 80 years later, over 20 veterans were present to commemorate the event. Trident was there.

On 15 June 2024, we hosted three veteran sons in a commemorative landing on the beach of Saipan to mark the 80th Anniversary of the landing made by their fathers, all of the 4th Marine Division.

Hang on tight with author Steve McCloud in what Col. Chris Woodbridge, Editor in Chief of Leatherneck and Marine Corps Gazette calls a "white knuckle account" of that first harrowing night on the island of Tinian, 24-25 July 1944.

On 6 March 1945, 22 year-old Ensign Jane Kendeigh became the first Navy flight nurse to land in an active combat zone. Author Steve McCloud tells the full story for the first time.

From its opening minutes, the battle on Iwo Jima was a battle for coordination. In Part 1 we observe efforts to win it in the year leading up to Iwo Jima.

In Part 2, we observe the actions taken to achieve operational coordination against all odds, external and internal, and who created action.