A knowledge of off-mass-shell behavior of the nucleon-nucleon interaction is very desirable, both as a test of various theoretical pictures 1 of the N-N interaction, and as input information for nuclear structure calculations. Nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung, N+N-+N + N+y, is a promising way to study such behavior, and for this reason £-/> bremsstrahlung (hereafter ppy) has received much attention in recent years, both experimental 2 " 6 and theoretical. 7 " 10 Although equally interesting, n-p bremsstrahlung (hereafter npy) has received much less attention. Calculations by Ashkin and Marshak 11 and by Cutkosky 12 suggest that the npy cross section is several times larger than the ppy cross section; however, calculations by Duck and Pearce 13 predict that the two cross sections are comparable. Experiments 14-16 studying the production of high-energy (>20-MeV) y rays from proton bombardment of complex nuclei have been interpreted in terms of npy inside the nucleus. However, Beckham 17 found that the extraction of the free npy cross section from such data is very uncertain and model dependent. The present work was undertaken to provide a more reliable npy cross-section measurement.The experiment was performed with a proton beam and a target of "almost free" neutrons in deuterium. (The alternative of using a neutron beam and a hydrogen target was discard-ed because a neutron beam combining sufficient intensity and energy definition was not available.) The proton-deuteron radiative processes are interpreted by the following extension of the spectator model. 18 The incident proton interacts with one of the nucleons in the deuteron, which has a momentum distribution given by the deuteron wave function. The y ray is produced in this initial interaction, and does not interact further. On occasions the spectator nucleon will interact with the incident or struck nucleon. These final-state interactions will distort the kinematics from those of the simple quasifree process, and sometimes cause binding of the interacting particles.