In the spring of 1944, a second artillery battery was being built southwest of the village of Ouistreham, set well back from the one on the Riva-Bella beach, not far from the water tower.

   All four of its 155-mm guns, initially placed in concrete pits, were to have been housed in casemates, but only three of these had been completed by D-Day.

     Its range-finding post was twinned with the Riva-Bella one.