Asia Corps
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The Asia Corps was a formation of the Imperial German Army which was sent to the Middle East to assist the military of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.
Medics from Asia Corps carrying a wounded soldier with camel (Palestine/May 1918).
Austro-Hungarian troops marching to their quarters at St. Paulus, Jerusalem.
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
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The Battle of Megiddo was fought between 19 and 25 September 1918, on the Plain of Sharon, in front of Tulkarm, Tabsor and Arara in the Judean Hills as well as on the Esdralon Plain at Nazareth, Afula
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…Feldmarschall-Leutnant Joseph Ritter von Pomiankowski. It was planned in 1917 and 1918 to send an "Orient-Korps" to the Ottomans, but this was abandoned. In the Battle of Megiddo, the Ottoman forces west of the Jordan River were engulfed by the Allied offensive. The surviving German and Austrian detachments fought their way…
A group of German prisoners captured during the fight at Semakh on the Sea of Galilee.
A side view of the Handley–Page 0/400 of No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps frequently piloted by Captain Ross Macpherson Smith
Progress of the battle, 19–24 September 1918
Yildirim Army Group carts and gun carriages destroyed by EEF aircraft on the Nablus-Beisan road