Corporal Fink was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was listed as Missing in Action while fighting the enemy near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea on December 2, 1950. He was presumed dead on December 31, 1953. CPL Fink's remains have been recovered and identified. His name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.