No, Russian accounts from the archives are very explicit on aircraft prior to the introduction of Soviet and Chinese fighters: two regiments of 43 Yak-9 aircraft (postwar metal ones, not the plywood wonders) and two regiments of 43 Il-10s, plus sixty odd assorted trainers and liaison aircraft (Po-2/U-2, Yak-11, Yak-18, and Yak-16 transports.) Cookie Sewell AMPS