by the comic series. In The Gathering Storm, Churchill explains that the operation was called this because it was so small. Gun sites Stationed in France to guard the airfields of the RAF's Advanced Air Striking Force during the Phoney War, 53rd (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery code-named its gun-sites PIP I & II, SQUEAK I & II and WILFRED I & II (Regimental HQ was codenamed PIXO). Wilfred and Trotsky According to 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Doris Lessing's autobiography, Wilfred, or "Wilfski" as she calls him, was based on Trotsky. References Citations Bibliography Daily Mirror Newspaper Saturday Editions 15 October 1921 - 8 September 1923 Pip, Squeak & Wilfred, Their "Luvly" Adventures (1921) Stanley Paul & Co, London Pip and Squeak Annuals 1923-1939 Wilfred's Annual 1924-1938 Uncle Dick's (Competition) Annual 1930-1932 Cartoons Details Under My Skin: Part One of My Autobiography. To 1949. London: HarperCollins Publishers. (1994.) British comic strips 1919 comics debuts 1956 comics endings Humor comics Text comics Fantasy comics Fictional dogs Anthropomorphic dogs Fictional rabbits and hares Fictional penguins British comics characters Comics about dogs Comics about penguins Comics about rabbits and hares Comics about animals Comics adapted into animated series Male characters in comics Daily Mirror