Claim: Pyotr Pokryshev (born 11, August 1914) scored his first and only aerial victory in the first month of the German invasion.
Evidence: 24 August O.S. 11 August] 1914
Hola Prystan, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire
(located within present-day Kherson oblast, Ukraine) Within the first month of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Pokryshev scored his first aerial victory - a shared shootdown of a He 111. It was the only aerial victory he scored during the war while flying the I-16.