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Where is the bridge?

Hello, it may be a unusual question, but my brother and me we would like to know, where our grandfather died 1944. He was a german soldier and was killed in a train just on a bridge in italy. We only have a written text of my grandmother, saying the bridge was near Orvieto (difficult to read), over the Arno summer 1944. His name was Anton Ormanns. We actually found a bridge bombed in 1944, that is still untouched since then, but it is near Calcinaia ( http://www.comune.calcinaia.pi.it/calcinaia2c-ti-visito21/il-ponte-ferroviario-della-linea-pontedera-lucca-e-la-stazione-di--calcinaia/2032 ). Could anyone of you help us or give us hints where to look at? Best regards Hubertus and Raphael