“1445 hrs, above Combles. SE5. Brought down behind the enemy’s lines. During a protracted single-seater fight between ten SE5s and 25 machines of my own Group, I attacked an Englishman at an altitude of 2.500 metres. Under my machine gun fire, both wings broke away from the aeroplane in the air. The pieces were scattered in the vicinity of Combles. Weather: fine. Gibbons listed Lt. W Porter of 56 Sqn, although he was killed an hour earlier versus Jasta 34b. As Richthofen’s combat report states the enemy aircraft disintegrated, McCone would be the more likely victim.”