Word: bottleneck
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...there was many a sign that Malinovsky's fast-moving army might yet swerve south to help Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin seal the narrow Crimean bottleneck. If these two able generals succeeded, the German forces in the Crimea and Kuban-perhaps as many as 300,000 men- would find themselves trapped within a huge nutcracker, one jaw pressing from the Ukraine, the other from the Caucasus. Russia's Black Sea Fleet, based on recaptured Novorossiisk, would add to the Wehrmacht's woes...
...Japs have plenty of planes. Their great difficulty, according to Chennault, is the training of enough men to fly the planes. A secondary bottleneck is aviation fuel. Many a Japanese tanker has gone down under the assault of Allied raiders, and Chennault is praying for enough men and equipment to strike decisively at Japan's sea communications...
...crumpled, said the Big Top could use the railroads if there were any locomotives left after all other train movements, freight, passengers or mixed. The next problem was how to break just about every wartime bottleneck in the book...
Another Wadi. The Wadi el Akarit was the strong natural position at which Rommel chose to challenge the Eighth Army's passage through the Gabes bottleneck (see map). The position was compact-only about twelve miles across. It consisted of the shallow gully of the Wadi itself and, behind it, two hills called Djebel Fatnassa and Djebel Roumana, 800 and 400 feet high respectively...
Rommel had pulled away almost intact, leaving behind a few Italianate droppings (the Eighth Army claimed only 8,000 prisoners, almost all Italian). The Axis armor had moved swiftly northward through the Gabes bottleneck, had settled down for at least a temporary stand at the Wadi el Akarit, a gulch about 16 miles north of Gabes...