Savoia Marchetti S.79 wearing strange Luftwaffe Markings/Camouflage

[Stig Jarlevik]

Hi Newcomer

Do you by any chance have the serial numbers of the 45 SM.79 bought by Jugoslavia in 1939?

If I understand you correctly your sources claim that this SM.79 was captured by the Germans in 1941 and the German code CQ+H? was given at that time before it was handed over to Croatia as 701 later in 1941?

Or is the implication that Luftwaffe aquired it by some means from Croatia later in the war?

Also could any of our Italian friends advice why on earth every Italian author in the past has so totally mislabelled the photo. I have seen it listed as taken in 1942 and post 1943 armistice with the Allies....

Cheers
Stig