Most victories in one sortie

[Professor Brensec]

David McCampbell shot down nine japanese planes during the marianas turkey shoot.

As for the one day record, that is held by Emil Lang, shooting down 17 or 18 in one day.

Do you know how many sorties were involved. I know there were German 'Experten' who achieved high 'daily tallies', but I'm not sure what the highest was for them.

Is the 17 in a day, that you mention, the Allied record, or all time??  

[denishc]

 While researching for another thread I ran across this....

 On October 9th, 1943 Major Bill Leverette lead two flights of P-38Gs (from a base near Tobruk, Libya) on a patrol over the Aegean Sea to cover a force of Royal Navy vessels that were sent to bombard German and Italian garrisons on the island of Rhodes.  When the P-38s arrived at their station they found the ships under attack by a large formation (25 to 30 aircraft) of Ju-87 dive bombers.  "In the subsquent melee, Leverette claimed seven Ju-87s distroyed and two damaged..."