[kolya1]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but :

On 22/06/1941 : A. I. Pokryshkin (55 IAP) mistakenly shot down a Su-2, the Su-2s were unknown to the MiG-3 pilots of 55 IAP, and they at first didn't see the red stars.

Pokryshkin damaged one with a burst of machine-gun fire, but while turning away to reposition himself he remark the red stars on the light bombers, he then stopped the attack and gave warning to his wingmen by waving wings and firing short bursts in front of them.

The damaged plane force-landed and one crew member was wounded.

Even if this event was thereafter used against him by officers with which he had conflicts several times in 1941-1942, he wasn't charged nor sentenced as the crew of the Su-2 survived (all the more so in the confusion of 22/06/1941).