There is a good chance that it just may well be him.
I am a collector of WW2 memorabilia - not for profit, just a history buff - and a week or so before I did the original posting, I obtained a large packet of photos from WW2, almost all of the subjects being Navy personnel.
Where did your father serve?
Is there an email address at which I can provide additional details?
I have been able to provide photos - no charge, I just mail them off with a cover note- to 2 surviving sailors, and two family survivors of the subjects of the photos. I have received wonderful notes from all indicating how nice it is to have a photo from the 40's of themselves or their father all of whom did not recall the photos existed, or had long forgotten about them.
If the man in the photo is your father, the picture is yours.