Posted on 06/06/2023 10:05:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Since today is the 79th Anniversary of the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944 I thought it would be a good time to compare the amazingly similar voices of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Clark Gable. In this video you can hear Eisenhower's D-Day message to the allied troops as compared to Clark Gable's recruitment speech for the Army Air Force. I also mixed up the segments of each so you can hear them speak closer together in order to better compare the similarity of their voices.
Frankly, Adolf, I don’t give a damn!
PING!
Was there another Dwight Eisenhower at the time? Why does everyone always use the D.?
Um... Because his middle name was David?
FUN FACT: Eisenhower was given the birth name of David Dwight Eisenhower but later reversed his first and middle names.
Wait a minute. Are you saying that Dwight Eisenhower and Clark Gable are one and the same person? If so, you might be right. I can find no picture of the two of them together.
Well, okay. I did find one. I can’t put it here because it’s a Getty image.
It was probably photoshopped anyway.
Don Rickles told some really funny stories about Clark Gable since he worked with Gable on a movie.
Have you ever seen them together? Come to think of it, have you ever seen Elmer Fudd and Eisenhower together?
Similar.
Yes very similar voices. Many men of the WW2 generation had more commanding voices in tone. Men overall were a hardier breed back then too.
> Many men of the WW2 generation had more commanding voices in tone. <
There is one surprising exception to that. Patton’s voice was in no way commanding. It was something that bothered him all his life. Here he is talking, starting at the 0.58 mark.
Thomas Pynchon mentioned this in the book Gravity’s Rainbow.
Did Clark pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ or ‘nukular’?
Were not both heavy smokers and died of lung cancer?
Similar, but not the same, especially if you ever heard one of them in person. I had the great privilege of meeting Ike face-to-face in my late teens. Very intense person. Admired him greatly.
The comparison is like this: two acoustic guitars both sound like guitars and not like clarinets; but one is a Gibson and the other a Yamaha. Alike, but distinct.
Another recording of Patton’s voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9DpKDwCJcM
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