The Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion (Polish: Samodzielny Batalion Kobiecy im.

[3] The battalion was named after Emilia Plater, a female Polish-Lithuanian leader who had fought against the Russians in the 1830 November Uprising.

[1] It also carried out medical and communications duties and provided training to women working elsewhere in the Polish Army.

[1][4] The only woman ever decorated with the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union who was not a Soviet citizen is Aniela Krzywoń, a member of this unit, after she died of injuries sustained while rescuing important military documents from a burning truck after a Luftwaffe bombing raid.

[6] Women veterans of the unit successfully sued Polish journalist and author Henryk Piecuch for slander in the 1990s after he claimed the battalion was organised solely to provide sexual services to male officers.