10 WWII Generals Who Won Battles That Should Have Been Impossible

10 WWII Generals Who Won Battles That Should Have Been Impossible On September 13, 1942, General Vasily Chuikov assumed command of the Soviet 62nd Army in Stalingrad under circumstances that would have broken most commanders. His headquarters sat on the western bank of the Volga River with no room to retreat. The river was behind him. The Germans were in front of him. He had roughly fifty thousand battered, exhausted men against Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army of approximately three hundred thousand, supported by the full weight of Luftflotte 4's air power.