They were the parents of four children: Adelaide Emma, George Levi III., John Elwood and Craig Streeter.

[14][11][12] In October 1941, he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana.

[10] On May 20, 1942, he graduated from Tuskegee Advance Flying School (TAFS)'s third-ever[16] Single Engine Section Class SE-42-E.[3][17][18] He was one of the first twelve African American combat fighter pilots.

[22] In 1945, he was president of the court assembled to pass judgment on a "racial incident" at Freeman Field, in Seymour, Indiana.

[6] He was one of ten officers to preside over the Freeman Field mutiny courts-martial, appointed by General Frank O'Driscoll Hunter: Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., Captains George L. Knox II, James T. Wiley, John H. Duren, Charles R. Stanton, William T. Yates, Elmore M. Kennedy, and Fitzroy Newsum and 1st Lieutenants William Robert Ming Jr. James Y. Carter.

[23] The highest rank he held, at his death in 1964, was lieutenant colonel;[12] he was a professor of air science at the officer training corps at Tuskegee.