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American Gertrude Ederle slathered herself in grease, wore a controversial two-piece bathing suit and ate chicken legs along the way.

Ex-special forces sergeant and SAS TV star Jason 'Foxy' Fox is speaking in Perth about his battles with PTSD, his life and his career.

The soldiers’ mission was as dangerous as it was audacious: a trek of more than 500 miles through mountainous jungle in northern Burma to seize a Japanese-held airfield in World War II.

Using the sun, sand and stars as his guide, navigator Mike Sadler delivered — and extracted — British special forces while on raids against Erwin Rommel in the North African desert.

He astro-navigated 18 Jeeps across 70 miles of desert without lights or maps – then inadvertently drove through the pursuing German column

Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, was a former MI6 officer and an honorary member of “the Originals”, as men of L Detachment of the early SAS are known. He was believed to be the last survivor of the Long Range Desert Group or LRDG, without which the fledgling SAS might not have thrived. He also has a piece of the Antarctic named after him.