Sorry Moose; Not even when we HAD a chance to read the "Stars and Stripes",POPSKIS--sounds like maybe the 10th Mountain Divn. They were on our
right flank in the mountains, All we knew was--Krauts up ahead.
By the way,-------- Sgtleo--What the hell is a carpetbagger !!! Roque(Rocky)
Rocky,
There's not an awful lot I know about these guys, but the CO Major Vladimir Peniakoff ( Popski ), noone could pronounce
his surname, hence ' Popskis Army', founded this special unit that drifted between the British and American command in Italy.
Dropped by RAF gliders into central Italy blowing up most things German then moving on into the mountains of Southern Italy.
Perhaps the lovely Marion 
could find one of her famous links about these guys. I was trying to be polite with the carpetbagger
tag because if there were no Germans to fight they would hurt each other !