Yep!
At least three times.
One we started out in a POW camp as we found a ruckus and then found the camp guards had deserted.
Another time with a member of this group...actualy 2 members with two games. It is kinda bland at this point.
I even made one about 10 or 15 years ago as a GM, where the members where on a POW train east. Complete with guards throwing rotten potatoes at them from the top hatch as a means of delivering their food.
I did give the PCs a chance to roll for a "Special" item. These items ranged from a bit of C4 to a straight razor. It was a good campaign, the blew open the slats on the cattlecar which fell atop two of their guards at a station. They body slammed a couple guards of 3rd line troops and ran into the hills and the game began.
It is a good means of brining in new players. But it is over used.
I used in the escape from Kalisz games and others, a medical vehicle or one or two wounded in stretchers. Unknowns to the players. But when new people would come in, an easy GM device to have one of the wounded unknowns to recoup and now take part.
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