Depends on the country, he could have been in the UK where other than air raids, there weren’t much fighting
Still have to consider that France was occupied. Normal activities like fairs were not likely. Of course, we don’t know he was in France. It was bombed by Western Allied Forces so any bombers he may have seen would reflect that. There were 1,570 French cities/towns bombed.
Hmmmm
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/exhibits/chip/chip-founded.asp
I feel lost …
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There were fairs going on in Britain
Yes but also if you remember we were told to keep calm and carry on, which is what a lot of them did, so as not to disrupt the normal run of the mill life!
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By all means, please type in any answers that seem to fit. If you find the answer, you will be the hero of the day. 
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Look hows pinned it on pin interest
Just a thought - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CDJ) one form of which is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease)
Could the cows have been burned because they were infected?
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But why do that at night and was that even a thing back in those days?
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He talks about not being lazy and farm work is hard work. He even went to work the farm for his in-laws. I don’t think ‘war’ should be a focus point.
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Not likely as there were wardens about telling everyone to “put that bloody light out”
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I just hope we get a clear understanding of what the red light was he saw behind the clouds.
For now, I am going to go mow my yard. It is very dry here. If it catches on fire maybe the smell will trigger something and I will have a Eureka moment. 
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In the UK, all non-essential activities ceased. Fuel was rationed, as were food and clothes. Non-essential travel was banned. There were curfews at night. Agricultural activity was strictly regulated by direct government intervention. All the men who normally worked the farms had been drafted into the army, so huge numbers of women were recruited to keep the farms going. The entire nation was on a war footing.
There were no country fairs.
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Maybe he looked right at the lightening when it struck causing a red dot in his eyes, he would have been able to stop looking at it, like if you accidentally look at the sun or a bright light source?
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Well, there’s a community event linked to it, happening tomorrow. So if we don’t get the answer soon, they’re going to have to tell us.
In fact, I’m not convinced they didn’t tell us the first one. I find it hard to believe anybody guessed that.
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Considering that Alex and all his brothers were too young to fight, and as my previous link showed that some fairs were active during WW2, that possibility has not being removed yet.
Also
The National Service (Armed Forces) Act imposed conscription on all males aged between 18 and 41 who had to register for service. Those medically unfit were exempted, as were others in key industries and jobs such as baking, farming, medicine, and engineering.
His father may have been safe from conscription at the time
Then again, Britain declared war in 1939
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In the fourties? Nope, no chance.
Same here…how in the hell were we supposed to know about that? Unless you’re a doctor who studied about this in college or have specific experience with someone suffering from this…but how many even suffer from this? I have never in my life even heard of such a condition. And it wasn’t hinted much at all…I mean sure he wasn’t comfortable in crowds but people aren’t comfortable in crowds for a billion different reasons.
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I searched for facial recognition problems, it’s the second entry on Bing. Tried it after Alzheimer’s didn’t work.
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People still use Bing?