The three were very determined and prepared to use violence. This was a unique situation because women in the Resistance were generally assigned to organizational and logistical tasks. Sometimes, as a smokescreen, Hannie and Truus pretended to be a couple in love. Truus recalled: ‘Then you’re there, allegedly smooching in a doorway, ready to shoot. The guy comes outside and you go after him, nervous as can be. For moral support at such a difficult and decisive moment, you need to egg each other on: “Let’s get him, that bastard!”’ When the German police went looking for a girl with red hair, Hannie dyed her hair black and wore these non-prescription glasses as a disguise. But to no avail. On 21 March 1945, just weeks short of the Liberation, Hannie was arrested and shot in the dunes by Overveen.