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RZM

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5. This is the first time I've ever heard him speak

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 08:01 PM

Dec 2011

I knew he had a pretty high voice, but I'd never heard it myself. Many people's impressions of Patton come from the movie. George C. Scott had quite the gravelly voice, but we can see here that the real Patton sounded nothing like that.

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