1943
55 confirmed victories
9.04.1943: His first victory flying the P-39 Aircobra. Making the debut of the pendulum and the "Kubanskaya Etazherka", he claimed to set on fire a Bf.109 out of a group that was jumping LaGG-3s. No Luftwaffe combat loss matches this claim, but 8./JG 3 reports the loss of Bf.109G-4 W.Nr. 14885 by engine failure. The pilot, Uffz. Reinhold Baisch, is listed as MIA.
12.04.1943: in a swirling dogfight over Krasnodar Pokryshkin claimed to shot down four Bf.109s (the last kill Pokryshkin scored saved a Soviet P-40). His probable victims were:
Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 14617, pilot unknown (35% damaged), 6./JG 3.
Bf.109G-4 W.Nr. 14952, pilot unknown (15% damaged), 4./JG 52.
Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 13879, pilot unknown (15% damaged), 4./JG 52.
Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 14842, pilot unknown (80% damaged and written-off), III./JG 3. (according to the Luftwaffe, it was an accidental loss).
15.04.1943: shot down a Bf.109, probably Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 14192 of 15.(Kroat)/JG 52 with 55% damage (according to the Luftwaffe, it was an accidental loss).
16.04.1943: shot down a Bf.109, probably Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 19221 of 8./JG 52 (60% written-off, according to the Luftwaffe, it was an accidental loss).
20.04.1943: he shot down Bf.109G-4 W.Nr. 14955 of III./JG 3, which crashed in the Black Sea near the gulf of Tsemesskaya.
21.04.1943: he claimed to shot down a Bf.109, in fact caused 50% damage to Bf.109G-4 W.Nr. 14966 of 4./JG 52, which crashed in the Black Sea near the gulf of Tsemesskaya.
24.04.1943: he claimed to shot down a Bf.109 - no German combat loss matches this claim.
29.04.1943: he claimed to shot down a Ju.88, in fact almost certainly a Heinkel He.111H-16 of III./KG 55. All its five crewmembers (included the pilot, Ltn. Hans-Peter Schickling) were injured.
30.04.1943: Pokryshkin shot down the Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 14787, wounding the pilot Uffz. Ernst Kerkhoff (4./JG 52).
4.05.1943: claimed to shot down two Ju.87s and one Bf.109. No Stuka losses match these claims, but the Messerschmitt fighter almost certainly was Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 19219 of Ltn. Kurt Günther (9./JG 52, WIA).
5.05.1943: claimed to shot down a Bf.109, actually 45% damaged the Bf.109G-4 W.Nr. 19335 of Fw. Heinz Sachsemberg (6./JG 52, WIA)
6.05.1943: Pokryshkin shot down the leader of a group of Bf.109s, probably Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 13688 of 9-kills ace Fw. Hans Scholze (KIA, 4./JG 52).
8.05.1943: he shot down a Ju.87, and later once again Pokryshkin use his favourite tactic of shooting down the leader of a group of Bf.109s. Ju.87D-3 W.Nr. 110760, crew unknown but both KIA, 4./StG 77. probably Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 19555 of 58-kills ace Ltn. Helmut Haberda (KIA, Staffelkapitan of 5./JG 52).
14.05.1943: a Ju.87 - no Stuka loss matches this claim.
29.05.1943: he claimed to shot down a Ju.88, actually Ju.88A-4 W.Nr. 2553 (9./KG 51), killing all four crewmembers.
31.05.1943: Pokryshkin caused 50% damage to Bf.109G-2 W.Nr. 13586 of I./JG 52.
14.06.1943: two Bf.109s
22.07.1943: a Bf.109, the Messerschmitt of Fw. Heinz Sachsemberg (6./JG 52, WIA), this time 60% damaging of Bf.109G-6 W.Nr. 19236 - the aircraft is written off.
23.07.1943: the Bf.109G-6 W.Nr. 20149 of 56-victories experte Uffz. Hans Ellendt (4./JG 52)
Mid August — transferred to new area; Airacobras often attacked by other Soviet pilots as the unfamiliar type looks like the Bf.109
17.08.1943: claimed a Ju.88 - No German loss matches this claim.
18.08.1943: Pokryskin shot down a reconnaissance Ju.88 above 8,000 m (26,000 ft), almost certainly the Ju.88D-1 W.Nr. 430825, all the crew including Hptm. Günther Sauer (Stafelkäpitan of 2.(F)/22) was killed.
21.08.1943: shot down two Ju.87s, shot up one Bf.109 - No German losses match these claims
22.08.1943: shot down a Bf.109, probably Bf.109G-6 W.Nr. 20533 of Uffz. Günther Müchnow (8./JG 52), who was injured.
23.08.1943: one Ju-87 - No German loss matches this claim.
21.09.1943: earlier Pokryshkin shot down two Ju.87s, later in the evening three more Ju.88s downed over Bolshoy Tokmak, two confirmed.
Ju.87D-3 W.Nr. 31247, Fw. Walter Bock (MIA), gunner returned, 6./StG 1.
Ju.87D-5 W.Nr. 130767, Fw. Hans Plumm & gunner returned, 6./StG 1.
Ju.88A-4 W.Nr. 8708, crew unknown, 5./RummKGr
Ju.88A-4 W.Nr. 2009, crew unknown, 5./RummKGr
Ju.88A-4 W.Nr. 5768, crew unknown, 5./RummKGr
7.10.1943: a reconnaissance Ju.88 - No German loss matches this claim.
one Ju-87
5.11.1943: one unescorted Ju-52 over the Black Sea.
6.11.1943: Another unescorted Ju-52 over the Black Sea.
19.11.1943: a third unescorted Ju-52 over the Black Sea, near Tenderovskaya Kosa.
28.11.1943: one Ju-87 - No German loss matches this claim.
16.12.1943: a Fieseler F.156 Storch.