This essay is Part 2 to a previous posting on weapons found at the Dead Sea from the Israel Daily Pictures (IDP) website. To see other related photographic material from the Library of Congress, visit IsraelDailyPicture.com [1]. For a free subscription, visit IsraelDailyPicture.com [1].
Last week we posted a feature (Thu, July 5, 2012 [2]) on the origins of a cache of antique German weapons found recently at the Dead Sea. The posting showed pictures of a World War I Turkish naval base and abandoned Turkish defense lines at the Dead Sea.
As evidenced in these American Colony-Library of Congress album pictures, the Dead Sea was a major supply route for the Turkish army between eastern and western Palestine, particularly after Britain and its allies blockaded Mediterranean ports.