Brian D. O'Neill is an American author and attorney, best known for ''

Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer ''Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer'', is a book about B-17 crews and missions in World War II, written by Brian D. O'Neill. He is also the author of ''303rd Bombardment Group'', on the same subject. During Vietnam, O'Neill served with the ...

'', a book about the U.S. Eighth Air Force and B-17 crews and missions in

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. He is also the author of ''303rd Bombardment Group'', about the same subject. Born into a U.S. Air Force family in 1949, O'Neill's growing up years were spent on many Air Force bases throughout the United States, at a time when piston-engined aircraft a generation or two behind the B-17 were still in wide use. His Air Force upbringing fostered a lifelong interest in World War II aviation history. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 1971, O'Neill served with the U.S. Navy for three years, first as a

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gunnery officer and then as a shipyard repair officer at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Upon leaving military service he became an

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and the General Counsel of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the aviation company that had manufactured the P-40 Warhawk fighter and the

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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.

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. McGraw-Hill Companies, 1999. ISBN . * 303rd Bombardment Group. Osprey Publishing, 2003. and 9781841765372. 1949 births Living people American male writers Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-writer-stub