Brian D. O'Neill is an American author and attorney, best known for Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, a book about the U.S. Eighth Air Force and B-17 crews and missions in World War II.
His Air Force upbringing fostered a lifelong interest in World War II aviation history.
Upon leaving military service he became an attorney and the General Counsel of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the aviation company that had manufactured the P-40 Warhawk fighter and the Cyclone B-17 engines during World War II.
In 2001 O'Neill left corporate life to enter the private practice of law.
As of 2013 he manages a very active immigration and employment law firm based in Morristown, New Jersey.