Word: corridorful
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...Germans also launched massive attacks at the corridor held by the Russians on the Gulf of Riga, apparently trying to blast an escape route for the German divisions trapped in Latvia and Estonia. The Germans claimed that they had shelled General Bagramian's positions from cruisers in the Gulf, that they had established contact with their pocketed forces. The Russians admitted abandoning several places west of Riga. To the east, however, Generals Bagramian and Masslenikov were squeezing the pocket hard...
That juncture would give China a corridor to India. It would bring in trucks to replace the worn-out jalopies on which China now relies. It would bring a pipeline, with gasoline for Chennault's planes. China's troubles still would not be ended, but they would be very materially lessened...
Mortain was a critical spot (see above). There the Germans had thrown four armored divisions into desperate counterattack. The object: to pierce the narrow waist of the U.S. corridor from Normandy, thus split the Allied front. One U.S. division, new to combat when it landed in France, took the brunt of the Panzer blow, recoiled, then stood and slugged...
...this was only flank protection. The main effort had been put into a wide arc which swung around the Seventh Army's unhinged left flank. The German Army facing north and west found itself being menaced from the south and east. Its route of escape was a narrow corridor to the east...
...below, the Seventh Army finally began to pull back. By this time Kluge was bringing part of the Fifteenth Army down to hold the line of the Seine but it was a question whether the Seventh Army could reach the Seine. The tattered Seventh might wriggle out of its corridor but the roads all the way back to the Seine were being strafed, and the bridges across it had been bombed out. In a coffin-shaped area roughly outlined by the Seine, Falaise, Argentan and ancient fivreux, Eisenhower had a chance of destroying the entire Seventh Army...