It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for construction driver Ollie B. Bartley, U.S. Navy, who was killed on January 14, 1957 when the vehicle (weasel) he was driving dropped through the sea ice at Hut Point, McMurdo Sound.
The remainder of the Commando, along with the two No. 10 (IA) Commando troops, would then come ashore in M29 Weasels and Buffaloes launched from Landing Craft Tanks (LCTs).
Using two bright red painted 1943 World War II M29 Weasel tracked vehicles and two 1950 D4 Caterpillar Inc. tractors the 6-man expedition left Wilkes Base on the coast for the Russian Vostok Station deep in the Antarctic interior.
Ben Weasel | Screeching Weasel | Pop Goes the Weasel | M29 Weasel | Weasel Mania | The Eagle pub on the City Road, mentioned in the Nursery rhyme ''Pop Goes the Weasel | M29 | I Am Weasel | Call of the Weasel Clan |