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Originally Posted by winny

All taken from pilots after action reports. (All Mustang pilots) It seems tha 20 degrees was the "combat flap setting"

Nice find Winny!

So at least on the Mustang, there are some examples of pilots successfully employing partial flaps in combat. I did not know that. But I still think this is more the exception than the rule. The "combat flap" setting was hardly a recommended procedure, even if it could be useful once in a while on certain aircraft in certain situations. I bet a lot of pilots who tried it came home with bent aircraft, if they came home at all.