Pyotr Pokryshev scored his first and only aerial victory in the first month of the German invasion.
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. 
