Hungarian-born Capa was the best known of the World War II combat photographers and took classic shots of the D-Day landings. He is quoted as saying "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."
On D-Day itself, Capa landed on Omaha Beach, where the Americans suffered the highest losses of all the D-Day beaches.
Capa later wrote in his book 'Slightly Out of Focus': "The flat bottom of our barge hit the earth of France. The boatswain lowered the steel-covered barge front, and there, between the grotesque designs of steel obstacles sticking out of the water, was a thin line of land covered with smoke -- our Europe, the 'Easy Red' beach.
"My beautiful France looked sordid and uninviting, and a German machine gun, spitting bullets around the barge, fully spoiled my return. The men from my barge waded in the water. Waist-deep, with rifles ready to shoot, with the invasion obstacles and the smoking beach in the background gangplank to take my first real picture of the invasion."
The IHT series will begin on Saturday June 5 and will include full-page reproductions of front pages from the New York Herald Tribune reporting the D-Day landings in June 1944.
These historical documents will be accompanied by exclusive articles by John SD Eisenhower, David Stafford and John G Morris, who was Robert Capa's editor and one of the first Allied journalists to land in France after D-Day.
Walter Wells, the IHT's executive editor, said: "At no time since 1944 has the commemoration of this historic date been richer in symbolism. We are especially proud of the articles and illustrations we have assembled for this outstanding series."
As well as historical, there will be present-day perspectives provided by writers of the IHT and The New York Times, including John Darnton, Roger Cohen, John Vinocur, Richard Bernstein and Alan Cowell.
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