PPA?
Popski's Private Army; the smallest of the three British Special Forces units operating in the Western Desert in WW2. Formed in 1942 by Vladimir Peniakoff (his nickname "Popski" came about because signallers had problems with his name), they finished the war with a flourish: disembarking their jeeps in St Mark's Square in Venice and driving around, the only wheeled vehicles ever to go there!
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