By day 1 1200, there had been no significant advances by DPRK troops, and our air activities had successfully rendered the enemy airbases on the west coast - Kwangju, Kunsan and Seosan - inoperative.

Operations then moved into a consolidation phase, to slow advancing enemy ground forces.  The first mission, at 1240, struck the major bridges along the westernern and northern front lines, using LGB to destroy all but the southernmost bridge in the west and the central and easten bridges in the north.  This action was only just in time, as several enemy units had already slipped across the rivers in the west and centre of the northern border.

The next task was to eliminate these incursions as they rapidly pushed towards Taegu.  However, before that operation could get underway, at 1330 an enemy strike force was detected inbound to Taegu and an intercept mission had to be quickly scrambled to meet it.

By 1400, the air threat had been driven off, but the situation on the ground had become critical, as the highlighted areas on this map indicating the enemy advances between 0900 and 1400 clearly show:

Just as the first mission was heading out to strike the advancing enemy, the orders came through to redeploy the squadrons southwards.  All subsequent operations would be out of Kimhae and Pusan in the south-east!  Despite the success of the strike missions, which by 1530 had eliminated both the northern and western columns entirely, the squadrons were already committed to the relocation.

After reocation, a follow-up sweep was sent out at 1600 against the troop concentrations across the river, focussing on eliminating engineering units that might otherwise repair the bridges.

Apart from the one significant strike force at 1330, enemy air activity was sporadic - indicating that their operations had been severely disrupted by our earlier OCA strikes.