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Hey, just a quick note before the interview starts. During the interview, the book A Can Loan

Officer, which is being reprinted by the Vickers Machine Gun Collection and Research Association,

is mentioned. That book is actually available for pre-order on the day that this episode releases.

I had a chance to give the book a read before we did the interview,

and I thought it was an interesting firsthand account of a soldier's experiences during the war.

You can find a link to the pre-order site in the show notes.

Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to another history of the Second World War interview.

Today I'm joined by Rich Fisher, a director of the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association.

Rich, how's it going today? Good, thanks. Nice to meet Wesley.

It's nice to meet you as well. So we're going to start off with kind of an easy question,

hopefully, as a director. What is the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association?

So we're a not-for-profit association here in the UK where basically we just, we study the Vickers M.G.

But everything connected to it.

So the Vickers served for the British Army from 1912 to 1968.

So a long period of time, it gives us an opportunity to, you Great War, the Second World War, Korea, British intervention in Malaya, loads of stuff around that.

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