In 1990 I flew to McMurdo Station Antarctica to work with the U.S. Navy and spent 13 months on the ice.

The tradition on the ice was this; the equipment operators gave a name to all the vehicles, bulldozers, front end loaders, etc. I was not a heavy equipment operator, but during that winter I missed my wife Vicki, I found this small D-3 Cat which did not have a name, so I named it in 1991 after my wife Vicki "Vicki B". I recently in 2007 received and email from a guy in McMurdo Station Antarctica, and I asked him if he had ever seen a D-3 named Vicki B, after a few weeks he sent me these pictures, after 16 years the Little Vicki B is still pushing dirt and snow on the ice.