Spaatz v. Göring?

[Sylvester Stadler]

Presently I am reading Eric Hammel's book, The Road to Big Week, wherein the author claims that Major Carl Spaatz, who was the CO of the 8th AF, claimed two kills during WW I, which included Hermann Göring, although he cites no documentation for this assertion. The book, Bloody April...Black September, by Norman Franks, et al. states that Spaatz, with the 13th Aero, made his claims for German fighters on 15 and 26 (a Fokker out of control) September 1918. The recorded claims and biographies of the German aces are contained in another Franks book, Above the Lines, wherein it states that Göring scored his last kill on 18 July 1918 and thereafter ceased flying combat missions.

It would be interesting to know if Göring was actually in combat in September 1918 and the source of the claim that Spaatz encountered Göring during that month and shot him down.