Dsrsia (#11735),
Welcome into this glorious company ! Drag up a pew to the old coke stove in our cyber crewroom and listen to the Wisdom of the Ancients, as the gale howls around and flaps the loose Nissen hut corrugated iron sheets.
Now as to your ..."Apparently this led to an early stage rebellion against American discipline which accounts for the two eliminations"... Read Page 114, #2275 of this Thread, which bears on this very subject. At the risk of "teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs", the easy way to get to Page 114 (or any other Page) is to click on the little inverted cone in a box at the end of the Page bar: this will give you a "Go to Page" box.
The enormous "washout" rate in the Arnold Schools is a mystery to this day.
Your Dad must've gone the twin-engined route, as a single engine man I went Carlstrom-Gunter-Craig Field. So although we were both on 42C, we would never meet (except by chance in Canada on the way in and out).
Let's have anything you know of your Dad's war history, and ask anything you want to know: there is always someone on this Best of All Threads who will know the answer.
Happy Posting, Danny.