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
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
Otto Liman von Sanders
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Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders was an Imperial German Army general who served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army during the First World War. He joined the military and rose through the rank
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
…exclusively on German rather than Ottoman staff officers, and was blamed for the defeats at Gaza and Jerusalem. He was replaced by another German General, Otto Liman von Sanders, who had commanded the Ottoman defence during the Gallipoli Campaign. Liman reasoned that continued retreat in Palestine would demoralise the troops…
Otto Liman Von Sanders
Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders at the Ottoneum in Kassel circa 1913
Ottoman general staff of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, 1914 (Sanders sitting middle)
Hans-Joachim Buddecke, Otto Liman von Sanders, and Oswald Boelcke in Ottoman Turkey, 1916