Lecture on WW II in the Indian Ocean and East African Theaters on June 28

WOLFEBORO — The Wright Museum will welcome Dr. Richard A. Lobban Jr. on Tuesday, June 28 for a lecture on WWII. This is the seventh program of the Wright Museum’s 2022 Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney Education Series.

This presentation is a much anticipated follow up to Dr. Lobban’s 2021 talk on World War II from African Perspectives. His current presentation picks up the story with the important 1941 battles for Keren in Eritrea, Culqualber Pass, and Gondar in Ethiopia where British and colonial forces from Sudan and India, from 1940 to 1941, finally defeated the Italian fascists and diverted them from European deployment. Like the proverbial “views of the other side of the moon” the Indian Ocean theater in WW II was much more important than imagined and fortunately Dr. Lobban will tell us why.

Dr. Richard A. Lobban, Jr. is an Adjunct Professor of African Studies at the Naval War College.

Doors open at 6 p.m., the program begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28 at the Wright Museum’s DuQuoin Education Center, 77 Center Street. Reservations are strongly encouraged and can be made online at www.wrightmuseum.org/lecture-series or by calling 603-569-1212.