Originally Posted by
A37575
Who knows, maybe my Aussie accent and perceived colonial attitude upset him.
Somewhere in my email log is a series of personal recollections of Capt. Beaty - the gist of all of them being that while he could be genial when the mood took him, he could also be very crotchety if you said or did the wrong thing. Personally speaking, given what we know of other Captains of the war era, I doubt it was a class or colonial issue which raised his ire as much as the wrong word at the wrong time.