GR translation: corporate death

[Mike Jing]

V282.4-9, P286.17-22   He was on one of the main arterials of the
spring’s last dissolution and retreat. Somewhere nearby, one of
Major-General Kammler’s rocket units had together found corporate
death, leaving in their crippled military rage pieces, modules,
airframe sections, batteries rotting, paper secrets rained back into
slurry. Slothrop follows. Any clue’s good enough to hop a train for. .
. .

Here "corporate death" means the effective demise of the unit, in
their hasty retreat, as opposed to "corporeal death" of the
individuals. Is that correct?
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