By the end of the Korean conflict, the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron, whose headquarters remained in Japan, had deployed four detachments in Korea. Two of these began work in mid-1951. In a search for technical air intelligence information, Detachment 1 interrogated enemy prisoners of war and collected and studied captured enemy materiel, including aircraft wreckage and fragments of expended munitions from enemy aircraft. It maintained teams at major tactical air bases in South Korea to debrief combat crews and review gun camera film for the same kind of information. Detachment 2 sent sub-detachments north of the bomb line and behind enemy lines to examine other enemy materiel and interrogate enemy deserters. Beginning in June 1952, the squadron's Detachment 3 undertook management of evasion and escape activities for the recovery of UN airmen shot down over enemy territory. It interrogated US personnel who had successfully escaped the enemy and provided information on successful evasion and escape to tactical units. It also experimented with infrared and radio equipment for locating downed airmen. Prisoner of war exchanges at the end of the Korean conflict led the squadron to deploy Detachment 5 to Korea in June 1953 to interrogate friendly personnel returning from North Korea in order to gather strategic intelligence information.

Stations

Tokyo, Japan, March 2, 1951-.

Campaign Streamers

None. Note: Individual detachments operating in Korea received campaign streamers and decorations on their own.

Service Streamers

Korean Theater.

Decorations

None.