heat shield. n. A barrier that prevents the heating of a space or an object by absorbing, reflecting, or dissipating external heat, especially a protective structure on a spacecraft or missile that dissipates heat on atmospheric reentry by melting and vaporizing. heat shield. n.
The Battle of Bunker Hill started when the colonists learned about the British plan to occupy Dorchester Heights. The colonists were understandably shaken by this news. They thought of this as the last straw, and they had to protect their land and freedom.
Simon & Schuster, 2008, 515 pages. The casualties suffered by the Essex-class aircraft carrier Bunker Hill exceeded those inflicted by any other Japanese suicide attack. On May 11, 1945, two kamikaze aircraft carrying 250-kg bombs hit Bunker Hill in quick succession, and they killed 393 men and injured 264 men.