25Jun50- At 4:00 Am the NKPA force of 90,000 with thousands more in reserve to the rear slam positions all across the 38th Parallel. Lead by Soviet made T34 soviet tanks of the WWII era, the mad rush to Pusan is on in full.
It is raining across the country.
The sounds of artillery fire begin moving the air as flashes of hot metal arch through the sky. Bewildered citizens break in all directions. Children scattered in the onslaught. US advisors (about 500) strong, or left basically powerless as they have no organized man power to react of their own. Available planes are not available for the South Korean forces.
At 0600 a phone call to HQ for help gets no reaction in the Ongjin Peninsula. A second call filters up through the ranks at HQ at 0900 requesting air evacuation. Two US piloted L-5 planes from Seoul to extricate US advisors trapped there. The following day, LSTs would rescue the remaining survivors.
One South Korea who witnessed the onslaught likened the attempted repulse to throwing eggs against a rock.
Not everyone started at the same time. One Division was an hour late in launching out of N. Korea. NKPA infantry could be seen with foliage tucked into their helmets and uniforms in support of the sneak attack. Incursions and border disputes had been going on for months along the border. The US believes this to be one in the same when word first reaches D.C. That will change at 11:00 AM when Premier Kim Il Sung announces a full scale invasion is taking place over the radio. Kim reports that the action was due to South Korean Hostilities along the parallel.
8Jun50 Over two weeks prior to the assault, Pyongyang newspapers report that a Parliament would be elected in August based on a discovered manifesto. In conjunction with that election, a meeting was scheduled in Seoul for August 15th. (Clearly a tell tale sign of what was coming).