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I've often found that, unless absolutely necessary, it's best to avoid doing either flashbacks or dual points of view. Well, outside of the normal narrative I mean. The only time I've actually had to use something like that, I only covered the first view in detail, and made the other character an observer in the second. IE, the reader already knew what'd happened from the first POV, so the second was more the reactions of the other person who observed the same scene as I didn't need to cover the events twice to get the desired effect. Also, thankfully I've only ever needed to use that once.
So I would say, do action and POV for the first person, and reactions only for the second so you're not doing a "Groundhog Day" on the reader. If there's one thing I hate is when writers do that. It's like, "I already read this. Why are you telling me twice!?" It made me actually change up some scenes in a series I'm working on right now to avoid that very thing, turning the second POV into nothing but a teaser for what was coming next rather than repeating it over again verbatim in the next book.
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