Kulmback fell on April 14, which marked the beginning of stiff resistance from that point to the city of Bayreuth, where a major battle ensued.

In this stretch, Baker Company (761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion) spearheaded for the 14th Infantry Regiment.  1st Lieutenant Harold B. Gary's tank platoon engaged enemy armor and knocked out one Panzer, forcing the enemy to destroy four of their remaining tanks to avoid capture.  When the smoke cleared, 75 enemy soldiers lay dead and 200 capitulated.

As the fighting raged outside Bayreuth, 66th Infantry Regiment troops attacked Bindlach Airport to the north.  In a wooded area nearby, they uncovered another large airfield and an aeronautical school defended by Luftwaffe personnel.

The doughboys had to cross a wide open field and did so courageously while under heavy machine gun fire.  The Panthers and the infantry's heavy weapons placed a concentrated barrage on the enemy machine gun nests as the doughboys made their way underneath this fire.  They would run, hit the dirt, and get up and run again.  Many of the doughboys never got up to run again.  Every yard felt like a mile.  When the remaining foot soldiers made it to the buildings, the tank and heavy weapons fire ceased as the infantry went through the area taking prisoners and shooting the rest.  When they thought enemy soldiers could be inside a building, they set fire to it and waited for the Germans to come out.

Charlie Company silenced nine machine gun nests in this support of the infantry.  A record keeper from the 66th Infantry Regiment noted that 520 prisoners had been taken; no effort was made to determine the exorbitant number of enemy dead.

Bayreuth was now surrounded by the 11th Armored Division, the 65th Infantry Division, the 71st Infantry Division, and the 761st Tank Battalion.  Together they hurled steel into the city with devastating effect.  Unfortunately, the enemy spurned a surrender ultimatum and the barrage continued.  After two days of shelling, Bayreuth could no longer stand the bombardment.  On April 16, the commander of the city's enemy defenders surrendered to the commander of the 14th Infantry Regiment.