Grannyjaq1 you must be so proud of your father.
I suggest you join this forum and ask your question:
ww2talk.com/index.php
There are many helpful people on there, and your kind of question is often asked. There's a separate section for surviving veterans,
My father was in the RNVR in WW2 .He died in 1991 aged 84.
Angela Rayner lashes out and calls Sunak “pint sized loser”.