Claim: Pyotr Pokryshev scored his first and only aerial victory in the first month of the German invasion.
Evidence: 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. He soon began flying the Yak-1, and in July he scored shot down a Ju 88 flying it. 
He soon began flying the Yak-1, and in July he scored shot down a Ju 88 flying it. He subsequently scored a shared kill on it before he was transferred to the 154th Fighter Aviation Regiment as a squadron commander and the deputy regimental commander in October. 
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. In December, Pokryshev gained his first aerial victory while flying the P-40 when he shot down a Bf 109.