ShotOne,
I'm sure they did, however I didn't! I think you can see why from the various CONOPs paintings, it would take a CVS's entire force of FA2s to bring back a mixture of rescuers and rescued numbering 16. From about 70 nm away maximum. On a high pressure, low temperature day. From somewhere you could get the stovies into and out of in squadron strength. Why not send a single junglie and use two fighters for RESCAP?
...nice idea for a bit of alcohol induced war gaming. No practical fixed wing application in my, as ever, humble opinion.