The concert opera named “The Miracle of the SS Meredith Victory” was jointly performed for 90 minutes (back-to-back in two acts) by the National Chorus of Korea, the Gaon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Geoje City Boys and Girls Choir on the evening of Dec. 7 at the Haeoreum Grand Theater in the National Theater of Korea in Seoul.
Until the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan this summer, this was estimated to be the largest wartime evacuation of civilians undertaken by the U.S. military, and it dramatically affected the lives of at least a million Koreans today.
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Seventy years ago navy demolition experts, army engineers and hundreds of other American servicemen, all part of a U.N. force that weeks earlier had numbered over 100,000, watched as a massive explosion ― the largest since World War II ― erupted over a small port in North Korea.
With docks, warehouses and wharfs bursting into flames, concussions rocking the harbor, and grey mushroom clouds lingering over the waterfront, the largest amphibious withdrawal of the Korean War and the greatest seaborne evacuation of civilians, under combat conditions, in U.S. history had come to a dramatic end.