Incredible model. Beautifull made.
As I read that your father was on the Hr. Ms. Java. My grandfather was the boatsman on this ship ( I don't know yet if there were more boatsmen on the ship, but in that case he was one of them. )
He was also one of the survivors after the attack.
The rest of the war he became a POW. Fukuoka 2b ( Nagasaki) and a few weeks before the A-bom would be drop on Nagasaki he was transported to Fukuoka 6.
I am trying to make website about his story and I saw a lot of images in your post.
So I was curious were those pictures came from. Some of them I already have, but this would be nice to share it in the website.
I have to work on the website, it's already to long ago that I made a post.
The website is not ready, but some pages are filled:
https://bootsmanmeurs.nl/
Thanks for sharing your experience.
With kind regards,
Dick.