elsie item issue 61 - USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association

AGATHA CHRISTIE, NOTED MYSTERY WRITER,HOSTS LCI COAST GUARD FLOTILLA 10Greenway House, Perhaps the Finest HeadquartersEver for an LCI Flotilla!Living aboard a cramped, “square conn” LCI was something of a challenge for “Coasties” manningFlotilla 10 during their service throughout the Mediterranean; but, when they arrived in England,their officers had quite a treat in store for them.Greenway House is a lovely mansion, which is now one of the architectural treasures managedby the England’s National Trust. Its now the home of one of the best known of all mystery writers,Agatha Christie, and for a time during World War II, was the headquarters of U.S. Coast-Guard LCI Flotilla Ten.During the autumn of 1943, Greenway was requisitioned by the Admiralty for the use of theUnited States Navy. As part of the preparations for D-Day, Greenway became the HeadquartersAshore and Officers Mess for U.S. Coast Guard LCI Flotilla 10, based in the Dart Estuary. Amongthem was LT Marshall Lee, who was to become their unofficial war artist. Lee created a friezearound the walls of the library documenting the history of Flotilla Ten. During the build-up to D-Day, American music could often be heard wafting over the estate. According to local rumor, anabrupt silence foretold another raid by the Luftwaffe!Edward Eng, now living in Los Angeles, who served aboard LCI 85, one of the ships of Flotilla Ten,sent us a well worn document giving the history of Flotilla Ten including this description of theirarrival in England and their experiences at Greenway House.“On October 28, 1943, we sighted Land’s End, England. Most of the Flotilla put into the harbor of28