So, the wartime "Arnold Scheme" lives again ! ("What goes around, comes around"). Always did make sense: the Southern States had the climate and the air space for flying training - Europe didn't - and hasn't.
Then as now, my "Primary" was at a USAAC Base ("Carlsrtom Field"), but operated by the "Embry-Riddle (Civilian) School of Aviation", who supplied the Instructors.
From: "The Official Website of "The Arnold Scheme (1941-1943) Register"™
"Unfortunately nearly 50% of British cadets did not successfully complete pilot training under the scheme, being eliminated ("washed out"), usually without the right of appeal. Between 1941 and 1943, some 7,885 cadets entered the scheme and of the 4493 who survived training, most were returned to the UK as Sergeant Pilots, with many being posted to Bomber Command". However, 577 of the graduates were retained for a period of approximately one year as Instructors."
Plus ça change, plus c'ést la même chose .....