Assess the Information.

Like every battle, the Battle of Arnhem was chaos. A lot happened at once.

Historians attempt to piece together eyewitness accounts from participants, their diaries, or other contemporaneous records. Reconciling the versions is further complicated by people’s tendency to experience time differently in periods of fear, panic, confusion, noise and mayhem.

Yet almost every witness has the same account of one event.

The Royal Air Force dropped desperately needed supplies. Everyone looked up - friend and foe. Everyone saw the same thing. Everyone’s accounts of it overlapped.

The second step in the Five Steps to a Good Decision is Assess the Information.