I bet he couldn't believe that an American plane was trying to shoot him down. I guess he later found out how lucky he was that he was shot down.
Yeah, I guess the C-47 pilot figured that being taken prisoner was preferable to ditching and probably dying of exposure, dehydration or drowning. He was obviously off-course and it was unlikely that a search would locate them. Very fortunate indeed, how that played out.
A few decades ago I had dinner at a friends and one of the guests was an ex-Black Sheep squadron member. He jokingly claimed he was an ace since he had wrecked five fighter planes during WWII. :^)