 It was called to active duty during the Korean War at the start of May 1951.Its personnel were used as fillers for other United States Air Force units and it was inactivated two weeks later.The squadron was reactivated in the regular Air Force as the 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron in 1954 under the 432d Tactical Reconnaissance Group as a Lockheed RF-80A Shooting Star reconnaissance training squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.